Early Peoples
Prologue: big history-human journey larger than the cosmic and planetary history; history of everything cosmo depicted as a single year. -eruption of inconceivable power and heat; universe creation gravity, matter, energy, electromagnetism and strong and weak forces. stars created due to comic gases created elements in chem periodic table milky way Sun- fifth largest living things have, larger multi celled creatures evolved in an explosive proliferation of life-forms over the past 600 million years. die offs around 5 times— diff species most known one to scholars “Permian” mass extinction occurring 250 million years ago eliminated 96% another 65 million years ago killed 75% included dinosaurs due to climate change and erupted volcanoes human population x more extensively and occupy most we appropriate 25-40% of the solar energy that enters the food chain...