Big history / foreword by David Christian ; contributors, Elise Bohan, Robert Dinwiddie, Jack Challoner, Colin Stuart, Derek Harvey, Rebecca Wragg-Sykes, Peter Chrisp, Ben Hubbard, Philip Parker.
At head of title: DK. "Macquarie Univeristy, Big History Institute." "Examines our past, explains our present, imagines our future"--Cover. Includes index.
Summary:
A companion text for the Big History Project blends geology, biology, physics, anthropology, and sociology to reveal how and why humans have reached their place in the universe.
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