大历史——大爆炸，地球上的生命，人类崛起 Big History The Big Bang Life on Earth and the Rise of H

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资源信息： 中文名: 大历史——大爆炸，地球上的生命，人类崛起 英文名: Big History--The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity 资源格式: MP3 发行时间: 2008年 地区: 美国 语言: 英语 概述:

播讲者：David Christian 类别：公开课 集数：48 码率：96kb 播放长度:24 hrs 出版公司：The Teaching Company 一共48课时，每课时30分钟。PDF文档为指导书。 本资料转自原典英语学习论坛 http://bbs.homer-english.com Imagine you are traveling through time. Consider the following episodes: * At 13.7 billion years ago, the Universe suddenly appears, growing from the size of an atom to the size of a galaxy in a fraction of a second. * At 10 billion years ago, hydrogen atoms and helium atoms fuse at the center of a supernova to create the building blocks of the physical world. * At 4.6 billion years ago, a cloud of matter collapses to produce a star?our Sun. Earth and the other planets in our solar system form out of the remaining bits of matter swirling around the new star. * At 67 million years ago, an asteroid collides with the Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs, and leaves territory open for the rise of a minor order of organisms, the early mammals. * At 100,000?60,000 years ago, a species of hominines?bipedal ape-like creatures? begins to move out of its home territory in Africa and into the Asian continent. * Today, the descendants of those first hominines?homo sapiens?live in nearly every ecological niche. We fly through the air in planes, communicate instantaneously over immense distances, and develop theories about the creation of the Universe. Each of these scenarios is just one episode in an ever-evolving story: the history of everything. It's a story you'll hear?in its monumental entirety?in Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity. Taught by historian David Christian, Big History offers a unique opportunity to view human history in the context of the many histories that surround it. Over the course of 48 thought-provoking lectures, he'll serve as your guide as you traverse the sweeping expanse of cosmic history?13.7 billion years of it?starting with the big bang and traveling through time and space to the present moment. A Grand Synthesis of Knowledge Have you ever wondered: How do various scholarly discourses?cosmology, geology, anthropology, biology, history?fit together? Big History answers that question by weaving a single story from a variety of scholarly disciplines. Like traditional creation stories told by the world's great religions and mythologies, Big History provides a map of our place in space and time. But it does so using the insights and knowledge of modern science, as synthesized by a renowned historian. David Christian, D.Phil. Professor of History San Diego State University David Christian is Professor of History at San Diego State University, where he teaches courses on big history, world environmental history, Russian history, and the history of Inner Eurasia. From 1975 to 2000, he taught Russian history, European history, and world history at Macquarie University in Sydney. 课题如下： Lecture One............ What Is Big History? Lecture Two............ Moving across Multiple Scales Lecture Three.......... Simplicity and Complexity Lecture Four........... Evidence and the Nature of Science Lecture Five........... Threshold 1?Origins of Big Bang Cosmology Lecture Six............ How Did Everything Begin? Lecture Seven.......... Threshold 2?The First Stars and Galaxies Lecture Eight.......... Threshold 3?Making Chemical Elements Lecture Nine........... Threshold 4?The Earth and the Solar System Lecture Ten............ The Early Earth?A Short History Lecture Eleven......... Plate Tectonics and the Earth?s Geography Lecture Twelve......... Threshold 5?Life Lecture Thirteen....... Darwin and Natural Selection Lecture Fourteen....... The Evidence for Natural Selection Lecture Fifteen........ The Origins of Life Lecture Sixteen........ Life on Earth?Single-celled Organisms Lecture Seventeen...... Life on Earth?Multi-celled Organisms Lecture Eighteen....... Hominines Lecture Nineteen....... Evidence on Hominine Evolution Lecture Twenty......... Threshold 6?What Makes Humans Different? Lecture Twenty-One..... Homo sapiens?The First Humans Lecture Twenty-Two..... Paleolithic Lifeways Lecture Twenty-Three... Change in the Paleolithic Era Lecture Twenty-Four.... Threshold 7?Agriculture Lecture Twenty-Five.... The Origins of Agriculture Lecture Twenty-Six..... The First Agrarian Societies Lecture Twenty-Seven... Power and Its Origins Lecture Twenty-Eight... Early Power Structures Lecture Twenty-Nine.... From Villages to Cities Lecture Thirty......... Sumer?The First Agrarian Civilization Lecture Thirty-One..... Agrarian Civilizations in Other Regions Lecture Thirty-Two..... The World That Agrarian Civilizations Made Lecture Thirty-Three... Long Trends?Expansion and State Power Lecture Thirty-Four.... Long Trends?Rates of Innovation Lecture Thirty-Five.... Long Trends?Disease and Malthusian Cycles Lecture Thirty-Six..... Comparing the World Zones Lecture Thirty-Seven... The Americas in the Later Agrarian Era Lecture Thirty-Eight Threshold 8—The Modern Revolution Lecture Thirty-Nine The Medieval Malthusian Cycle, 500–1350 Lecture Forty The Early Modern Cycle, 1350–1700 Lecture Forty-One Breakthrough—The Industrial Revolution. Lecture Forty-Two Spread of the Industrial Revolution to 1900. Lecture Forty-Three The 20th Century Lecture Forty-Four The World That the Modern Revolution Made Lecture Forty-Five Human History and the Biosphere Lecture Forty-Six The Next 100 Years Lecture Forty-Seven The Next Millennium and the Remote Future Lecture Forty-Eight Big History—Humans in the Cosmos