![]() ![]() My take away from this book, and others read recently, is that culture matters. And we have developed cognitive tricks (like language, knowledge sharing, culture, social customs) to change our evolutionary trajectory faster than our biology ever would allow. In a larger sense, the origin story told here is humbling too–it give us a very real understanding that our mere existence in space and time is fleeting.Īnd yet, whether we know this or not, we go through our lives with a remarkable ability to understand our place in all of it. From the human perspective, if we don’t understand our origin, based on science and facts, then the ignorance that creeps in could ultimately distract and destroy our ability to sustain as a species. The themes of Origin Story are important. ![]() Thus, the name for the book and also the underlying Big History Project. Hopefully, that common understanding will establish a starting platform from which science-based decisions and polices can be made. ![]() The real idea is to build a unified view, rooted in science, of how everything, including us, originated. Of course, the book is more nuanced than that. A story from the Big Bang to the end of the Universe. On the surface, this book attempts a big task: to tell the story of the Universe, and ultimately the biological and social evolution of humans. ![]()
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