Big history and the future of humanity:
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
List of Figures viii
List of Text Boxes X
Preface and Acknowledgments xi
A Short Time Line of Big History xx
Chapter One Introduction to Big History 1
Introduction 1
Studying the Past 2
A Very Short History of Academic History 12
A Short History of Big History 18
A Historical Theory of Every thing? 29
Chapter Two General Approach 42
Introduction 42
Matter and Energy 45
Complexity 48
Energy Flows and the Emergence of Complexity 54
The Goldilocks Principle 63
Chapter Three Cosmic Evolution: The Emergence of
Simple Forms of Complexity 74
Introduction 74
The Big Bang: No Complexity 75
Recent Issues Concerning the Big Bang Scenario 77
The Radiation Era: The Emergence of Complexity at the
Smallest Scales 80
The Matter Era: The Emergence of Complexity at Atomic
and Molecular Scales 86
Galaxy Formation: The Emergence of Complexity at Larger Scales 89
The Emergence of Stars 95
Stars as Nuclear Forges 100
vi Contents
Chapter Four Our Cosmic Neighborhood: The Emergence
of Greater Complexity 107
Introduction 107
The Galactic Habitable Zone 110
The Emergence of Our Cosmic Neighborhood 111
The Solar System Habitable Zone 116
Major Characteristics of Earth 118
Early Inner Planetary History 122
Early Earth History 125
Life Is Very Special 126
The Emergence of Life 130
Chapter Five Life on Earth: The Widening Range of Complexity 140
Life, Energy and Complexity 140
Planetary Energy Flows and Life 147
The Gaia Hypothesis 149
The Emergence of Energy Harvesting from Outside 153
The Emergence of the Biological Food Web 156
The Emergence of Multicellular Organisms 160
The Emergence of Brains and Consciousness 162
The Increase and Expansion of Biological Complexity 166
Conquest of the Land 168
Further Increasing Complexity 170
Chapter Six Early Human History: The Emergence of
the Greatest Known Complexity 179
Introduction 179
What Makes Humans Different 180
Energy and Complexity 183
The Emergence of Early Humans 185
Improving Social Coordination 188
Tool Making and Brain Growth 189
Brains and Intestines 193
Fire Control 194
Migration 197
The Rise of Modern Humans 200
Early Religion 205
Chapter Seven Recent Human History: The Development of
the Greatest Known Complexity 214
Introduction 214
The Agrarian Revolution 220
Contents ѵІі
The Developing Agrarian Regime 229
Social Effects of the Agrarian Revolution 232
The Emergence of Agrarian Religions 234
Increasing Agricultural Complexity and Declining Untamed Complexity 235
Early State Formation 240
The Emergence of Big States 245
The Emergence of Moral Religions 247
Energy and Complexity in State Societies 251
The First Wave of Globalization 256
Industrialization: The Second Wave of Globalization 264
Informatization: The Third Wave of Globalization 271
Energy, Complexity and Goldilocks Circumstances 276
Chapter Eight Facing the Future 295
Introduction 295
A Very Short Overview of the Long Future of the Universe 299
The Future of Earth and Life 300
The Future of Humanity 301
The Availability of Matter and Energy 304
Exhaustion of Critical Resources and Growing Entropy 309
Will Humans Migrate to Other Planets? 311
Final Words 313
Index 318
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