Most Improbable Story

Preface

Introduction

Perspective Matters, But Perspective Isn't Everything - Envisioning

Humankind's Place in the Universe

Part I: The Making of a Habitable World

1. In the Beginning - The Genesis of the Universe

2. The Life and Death of a Star

3. The Milky Way - A Goldilocks Galaxy

4. The Galactic Cradle

5. The Inimitable Earth

Part II: The Emergence of Life From a Lifeless World

6. Let There Be Life - The Rise of the Prokaryotes

7. Evolution - The Generator of Life's Diversity

8. The Birth of the Superkingdoms - Prokaryotes, Achaea, and

Eukaryotes

9. Partnering Up - The Journey from Single Cell Eukaryotes to

Multicellular Animals

10. The Blossoming of Terrestrial Life

11. The Emergence of Genus Homo - The Earth's First Humans Come

Into Being

12. The Genesis of Behaviorally Modern Homo sapiens - A Cognitively

Advanced Human That Can Reflect Upon Its Existence

13. Peering into Life's Future

Epilogue

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• História da Ciência
• Biologia, ciências da vida
• Geoquímica
• Geofísica
• História
• Ensino de Ciências, ciência geral

Big History;Origin of Life;Evolution of Complexity;Emergenent Conditions;Supermassive Black Hole;Young Man;Super-massive Black Holes;Habitable Zone;Heavy Elements;Life Forms;Archean Eon;Modern Homo Sapiens;Plate Tectonic Activity;Accretion Disk;End Triassic Mass Extinction;Genus Homo;RNA Nucleotide;Dark Matter;Non-avian Dinosaurs;Endocranial Volume;Oxygenic Photosynthesis;RNA Molecule;Huronian Glaciation;DNA Molecule;Asteroid Strike;Jebel Irhoud;Single Celled Eukaryotes;Van Helmont;Helium Nuclei