Big History. : the big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity Part 1 of 4
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Lectures 1-12 of 48.
Lecture 1. What is big history? -- lecture 2. Moving across multiple scales -- lecture 3. Simplicity and complexity -- lecture 4. Evidence and the nature of science -- lecture 5. Threshold 1, Origins of Big Bang cosmology -- lecture 6. How did everything begin? -- lecture 7. Threshold 2, The first stars and galaxies -- lecture 8. Threshold 3, Making chemical elements -- lecture 9. Threshold 4, The earth and solar system -- lecture 10. The early earth, a short history -- lecture 11. Plate tectonics and the earth's geography -- lecture 12. Threshold 5, Life.
Lecturer: David Christian, San Diego State University.
Dr. David Christian, Professor of History at San Diego State University surveys the past at all possible scales, from conventional history, to the much larger scales of biology and geology, to the universal scales of cosmology.
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PUBLISHED
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 6 video discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (ii, 73 p. ; 22 cm.)
Language: English
Format: DVD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
159803409X
9781598034097
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SUBJECTS
Civilization -- Philosophy.
Human evolution.
World history.