Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity

<p>In Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity, you’ll hear this ever-evolving story—the history of everything—in its monumental entirety from the moment the Universe grew from the size of an atom to the size of a galaxy in a fraction of a second.</p>

• By This Professor
• 01: What Is Big History?
• 02: Moving across Multiple Scales
• 03: Simplicity and Complexity
• 04: Evidence and the Nature of Science
• 05: Threshold 1-Origins of Big Bang Cosmology
• 06: How Did Everything Begin?
• 07: Threshold 2-The First Stars and Galaxies
• 08: Threshold 3-Making Chemical Elements
• 09: Threshold 4-The Earth and the Solar System
• 10: The Early Earth-A Short History
• 11: Plate Tectonics and the Earth's Geography
• 12: Threshold 5-Life
• 13: Darwin and Natural Selection
• 14: The Evidence for Natural Selection
• 15: The Origins of Life
• 16: Life on Earth-Single-celled Organisms
• 17: Life on Earth-Multi-celled Organisms
• 18: Hominines
• 19: Evidence on Hominine Evolution
• 20: Threshold 6-What Makes Humans Different?
• 21: Homo sapiens-The First Humans
• 22: Paleolithic Lifeways
• 23: Change in the Paleolithic Era
• 24: Threshold 7-Agriculture
• 25: The Origins of Agriculture
• 26: The First Agrarian Societies
• 27: Power and Its Origins
• 28: Early Power Structures
• 29: From Villages to Cities
• 30: Sumer-The First Agrarian Civilization
• 31: Agrarian Civilizations in Other Regions
• 32: The World That Agrarian Civilizations Made
• 33: Long Trends-Expansion and State Power
• 34: Long Trends-Rates of Innovation
• 35: Long Trends-Disease and Malthusian Cycles
• 36: Comparing the World Zones
• 37: The Americas in the Later Agrarian Era
• 38: Threshold 8-The Modern Revolution
• 39: The Medieval Malthusian Cycle, 500-1350
• 40: The Early Modern Cycle, 1350-1700
• 41: Breakthrough-The Industrial Revolution
• 42: Spread of the Industrial Revolution to 1900
• 43: The 20th Century
• 44: The World That the Modern Revolution Made
• 45: Human History and the Biosphere
• 46: The Next 100 Years
• 47: The Next Millennium and the Remote Future
• 48: Big History-Humans in the Cosmos