A Most Improbable Journey: A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (792 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393355195 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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In A Most Improbable Journey he gives us the biggest history of all, going from the Big Bang to our own place on the planet. Carroll, author of Endless Forms Most Beautiful“A wonderful account of Big History by a geologist. And he reminds us how absurdly improbable is the role we play in this colossal story, and how many things had to go right for you and me to exist.” - David Christian, founder of the field of Big History and author of Maps of Time“For the past three decades, Walter Alvarez has been at the center of a revolution in how scientists think about the history of life and the Earth. An instant classic.” - Sean B.
An instant classic.”Sean B. Yet behind everything in our world, from the phone in your pocket to even the force of gravity itself, lies a similarly grand procession of highly improbable events.This panoramic viewpoint has captured the imagination of historians and scientists alike, and together they’ve created a new fieldBig Historythat integrates traditional historical scholarship with scientific insights to study the full sweep of our universe and its past. Walter Alvarez brings his unique expertise and infectious curiosity to give us a new appreciation for the incredible occurrencesfrom the Big Bang to the formation of supercontinents, the dawn of the Bronze Age, and beyondthat have led to our improbable place in the universe. CarrollOne in a million doesn’t even come close.Not when we’re talking about the odds that you would happen to b
Francis and the best-selling T. Walter Alvarez a professor of geology at the University of California, Berkeley, is one of the founding members of the International Big History Association. . rex and the Crater of Doom. He was awarded the 2002 Penrose Medal, the top honor in geology, and is the author of The Mountains of St
Excellent Popular Science Writing Book Shark A Most Improbable Journey: A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves by Walter Alvarez“A Most Improbable Journey” is an awe-inspiring and accessible history of our planet and ourselves that combines the cosmos, earth, life and humanity. Famed geologist and professor at the University of California, Berkely, Walter Alvarez takes the reader on a stimulating ride through our planet’s history an. Gary L. Magruder said Let the Blind See. Want to learn something about real history of our earth and our species and the huge ,immense, seemingly endless journey,this great book is for you. I was left in awe. If you are a biblical literalist , you will clearly not like this book . If you are religious,but not narrow ,you may well find it stirs your thinking . If you are a geologistwell, of course , you will admire it . As an admirer of Darwin, Rache. Mal Warwick said Continental drift, the death of the dinosaurs, and the accidental history of human life on Earth. UC Berkeley professor Walter Alvarez tackles the emerging field of Big History from his perspective as a geologist, viewing himself as “a historian of the Earth.” In A Most Improbable Journey, he writes about the universal context in which human life has emerged.A planet in a constant state of fluxBeginning with the Big Bang and rushing through the intervening 1Continental drift, the death of the dinosaurs, and the accidental history of human life on Earth UC Berkeley professor Walter Alvarez tackles the emerging field of Big History from his perspective as a geologist, viewing himself as “a historian of the Earth.” In A Most Improbable Journey, he writes about the universal context in which human life has emerged.A planet in a constant state of fluxBeginning with the Big Bang and rushing through the intervening 13.8 billion years at top speed, he f. .8 billion years at top speed, he f