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Uma História da Habitabilidade Cósmica

Journal of Big History, 2020
Nossa compreensão do universo é baseada no modelo cosmológico do Big Bang, que descreve um universo em expansão cujo desenvolvimento começou 13,8 bilhões de anos atrás, a partir de um estado quente e denso.
Amedeo Balbi
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Cosmology Solved? Quite Possibly! [PDF]

, 1998
The discovery of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in 1964 by Penzias and Wilson led to the establishment of the hot big-bang cosmological model some ten years later.
Turner, Michael S.
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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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Inflationary Cosmology [PDF]

, 2001
The big bang model and the history of the early universe according to the grand unified theories are introduced. The shortcomings of big bang are discussed together with their resolution by inflationary cosmology.
Lazarides, G.
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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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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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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 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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