Origin Story
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Origin Story
| Full title | Origin Story: A Big History of Everything |
|---|---|
| Author | David Christian |
| Published | 2018 |
| Pages | 368 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Christian’s single-volume Big History — from the Big Bang to the present in eight thresholds of rising complexity, with human history as one late stage of a much longer sequence. |
Where I heard about it
- A reply to @SpencrGreenberg — in the thread under his question “What non-fiction book taught you the most about how the world (or how humanity or society) really works?” (June 2025), listed as “Origin Story by David Christian.” The full set of replies is on A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet).
Connections
- History — The discipline, stretched to cosmological scale.
- Complexity — The organising variable across the eight thresholds.
- Evolution — One of the thresholds.
- Energy — The flows Christian uses to define complexity.
- A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.
What links here
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