Explore Big History
Big History seeks to evoke in you an appreciation for the immensity of science and a longing for the greatest story ever told.
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History That’s Written in Beads as Well as in Words
A small cadre of diverse collaborators in anthropology, archaeology, primatology, genetics, and linguistics have spent the last two and half years working on a forthcoming book, Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present (University of California Press) that serves as a kind of manifesto for their cause. As the authors explain, deep history emphasizes…
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Holism and Human History
We do not have even a preliminary draft of a story of “culture,” i.e., human history, that has the degree of consensus that exists about our stories of cosmos and nature.
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Down with the Origin of Speciousness
In the 200th anniversary year of Darwin’s birth, I traveled to Down House from my home in Lincoln, Nebraska, to confront the origin of specious beliefs about evolution, and in my own small way try to uproot them.
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Systems Metaphysics: A Bridge from Science to Religion
Systems metaphysics provides a new way to understand scientific knowledge, reveals the deep connection between fact and value, and formulates scientific knowledge that can be personally appropriated.
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The Future of Evolution
The evolution of the universe and the evolution of science can be described in the same language as the evolution of life.