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Cosmic Perspectives and the Myths We Need to Survive

Journal of Big History, 2019
Big history can be defined as the attempt to understand the integrated history of the cosmos, Earth, life and humanity. Cosmic perspectives and biological evolution are the main scientific ingredients that can convert and broaden history into big history.
Charles H. Lineweaver
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Biospheric Evolution Is Coarsely Deterministic

Journal of Big History, 2020
Starting with the origin of life, I argue that the general pattern of the tightly coupled evolution of biota and climate on Earth has been the very probable outcome from a relatively small number of possible histories at the macroscale, given the same ...
David Schwartzman
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What is Big History?

Journal of Big History, 2017
Big history is a new disciplinary field of scholarship that studies the past at all possible scales. Its approach is historical, but it links disciplines from cosmology to geology to evolutionary biology and human history. Beginning with E.H.
David Christian
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L'Evoluzione Biosferica è Grossolanamente Deterministica

Journal of Big History, 2020
A partire dall'origine della vita, sostengo che il modello generale dell'evoluzione strettamente accoppiata del bio-ta e del clima sulla Terra sia stato il risultato molto probabile di un numero relativamente piccolo di storie possibili allamacroscala ...
David Schwartzman
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Reexamining “Free Energy Rate Density” as a Complexity Metric

Journal of Big History
Cosmic Evolution, by Eric J. Chaisson is arguably one of the original “core” texts of big history. Despite being published over 20 years ago, it is still relevant for its explanation of the cosmological and thermodynamic underpinnings of the evolution of
Ken Solis
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On the Pursuit of Academic Research across all the Disciplines

Journal of Big History, 2017
This article is about similarities and differences in the pursuit of academic research across all the disciplines. It forms part of my efforts in the field of big history to find a common language and understanding for all its practitioners, both big ...
Fred Spier
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Big History

Historically Speaking, 2002
In a 1991 article for the Journal of World History, David Christian argued that world historians should widen the temporal and disciplinary scope of their field to take in current scientific theories about the origins of life, the planet and even the Universe. Since then, 'big history' as he coined it has become the subject of vibrant historiographical
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On the social impact of the Apollo 8 Earthrise photo, or the lack of it?

Journal of Big History, 2019
In this article, the various forms of contemporary news reports are explored of the Apollo 8 Earthrise pictures and whole Earth images photographed by the astronauts. Already during this flight to the Moon, that took place at the end of December of 1968,
Fred Spier
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Aging and Evolution

Journal of Big History, 2018
Similar empirical patterns of behavior are found in seemingly very different fields which once put together account for a « big history » approach of aging and evolution.
Guibert U. Crevecoeur
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Is Big History a Movement Culture?

Journal of Big History, 2018
This essay analyzes Big History as a movement, one that has been evolving from individuals and small groups of people working independently to a scholarly community and a set of institutions no longer dependent on founding individuals.
William Katerberg
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