An edition of From Chaos to Consciousness A Brief History of the Universe
(2015)
From Chaos to Consciousness A Brief History of the Universe
by Mike Corwin
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April 13, 2015 | History
The word “evolution” is generally taken to mean biological evolution. However, biological evolution is simply the natural consequence of cosmic, stellar, geological, and chemical evolution. “From Chaos to Consciousness: A Brief History of the Universe” is the story of human evolution in this broader sense of the word.
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Table of Contents
Content
1. The Greeks
1.1. Introduction
1.2. The Birth of Science
1.3. The Greek Worldview
1.4. Islam & Science
2. The Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Reformation
2.1. Late Antiquity and The Early Middle Ages
2.2. The Late Middle Ages
2.3. The Renaissance
2.4. The Reformation
3. The Scientific Revolution
3.1. Nicolaus Copernicus
3.2. Tycho Brahe
3.3. Johannes Kepler
3.4. Galileo Galilei
3.5. Isaac Newton
3.6. The Enlightenment
4. Charles Darwin and Evolution
4.1. The Theory of Evolution
4.2. Fossils
4.3. Punctuated Equilibrium
4.4. The Modern Synthesis
5. Matter and Light
5.1. Atoms
5.2. The Chemical Elements
5.3. Radioactive Decay
5.4. Electromagnetic Radiation
5.5. The Electromagnetic Spectrum
5.6. Spectroscopy
6. The Present Universe
6.1. The Milky Way
6.2. Other Galaxies
6.3. Hubble’s Law
6.4. The Expansion of Space
6.5. The Contents of Galaxies
6.6. The Universe vs The Visible Universe
7. The Big Bang
7.1. George Lemaitre
7.2. George Gamow
7.3. Robert Dicke
7.4. Penzias and Wilson
8. The Early Universe
8.1. Quarks and Leptons
8.2. Protons and Neutrons
8.3. Nuclei
8.4. Atoms
9. Modern Cosmology
9.1. WMAP
9.2. Dark Energy
9.3. The Contents of the Universe
9.4. The Geometry of the Universe
9.5. Cosmological Models
10. Stellar Evolution
10.1. The Birth of a Star
10.2. Hydrogen Fusion
10.3. The Deaths of Stars
10.4. Supernovae
11. The Formation of the Earth
11.1. The Solar System
11.2. The Origin of the Solar System
11.3. The Age of the Solar System
11.4. The Geological Evolution of the Earth
12. Biological Evolution
12.1. Chemical Evolution
12.2. Biological Evolution
12.3. Primates
13. Human Evolution
13.1. Lucy
13.2. The Earliest Hominids
13.3. Australopithecines
13.4. Homo habilis
13.5. Homo erectus
13.6. Homo neanderthalensis
13.7. Homo sapiens
14. Consciousness
14.1. The Human Brain
14.2. The Mind-Body Problem
14.3. How Does the Brain Think?
14.4. The Evolution of Consciousness
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