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| adam_text | CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ix
List of Tables xiii
Foreword xv
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction: A Modern Creation Myth? 1
PARTI. THE INANIMATE UNIVERSE
1. The First 300,000 Years: Origins of the Universe,
Time, and Space 17
2. Origins of the Galaxies and Stars: The Beginnings
of Complexity 39
3. Origins and History of the Earth $y
PART II. LIFE ON EARTH
4. The Origins of Life and the Theory of Evolution 79
5. The Evolution of Life and the Biosphere 107
PART III. EARLY HUMAN HISTORY: MANY WORLDS
6. The Evolution of Humans 139
7. The Beginnings of Human History 171
PART IV. THE HOLOCENE: FEW WORLDS
8. Intensification and the Origins of Agriculture 207
9. From Power over Nature to Power over People:
Cities, States, and Civilizations 245
10. Long Trends in the Era of Agrarian Civilizations 283
PART V. THE MODERN ERA: ONE WORLD
11. Approaching Modernity 335
12. Globalization, Commercialization, and Innovation 364
13. Birth of the Modern World 406
14. The Great Acceleration of the Twentieth Century 440
PART VI. PERSPECTIVES ON THE FUTURE
15. Futures 467
Appendix 1. Dating Techniques, Chronologies,
and Timelines 493
Appendix 2. Chaos and Order 505
Notes 5x3
Bibliography 563
Index 595
ILLUSTRATIONS
TIMELINES
1.1. The scale of the cosmos: 13 billion years 16
3.1. The scale of the earth, the biosphere, and Gaia :
4.5 billion years 58
5.1. The scale of multicellular organisms: 600 million years 106
5.2. The scale of mammalian radiations: 70 million years 126
6.1. The scale of human evolution: 7 million years 138
7.1. The scale of human history: 200,000 years 170
8.1. The history of agrarian societies and urban civilizations:
5,000 years 206
11.1. The scale of modernity: 1,000 years 334
MAPS
2 .i. The changing earth: tectonic movements over
540 million years 74
7.1. Extent of glaciation during the ice ages 192
7.2. Migrations of Homo sapiens from 100,000 bp 193
8.1. World zones of the Holocene era 213
8.2. The Afro Eurasian world zone 214
8.3. Ancient Mesopotamia 237
9.1. Ancient Sumer 246
ix
x ILLUSTRATIONS
9.2. Ancient Mesoamerica 247
io.i. The American world zone before Columbus 314
FIGURES
1.1. Parallax: measuring the distance of stars using elementary
trigonometry 29
2.1. The position of the Sun within the Milky Way 40
3.1. The structure of the earth s interior 66
5.1. Prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells compared 115
5.2. Temperature fluctuations at different timescales 132
5.3. Basic rhythm of population growth *34
6.1. Populations of Homo sapiens, 100,000 bp (before present)
to now 142
6.z. A reconstruction of Lucy, an australopithecine *57
6.3. The evolution of stone tools over 2.5 million years 161
7.1. Neanderthal and human skulls 176
7.2. Behavioral innovations of the Middle Stone Age in Africa 181
7.3. Extinct (and dwarfed) Australian megafauna 200
8.1. Three eras of human history compared 208
8.2. Human populations, 10,000 bp to now 209
8.3. Intensification in Australia: eel traps 226
8.4. Intensification in Australia: stone houses 227
8.5. Early agricultural villages from Ukraine 240
9.1. Scales of social organization 250
9.2. Agriculture and population growth: a positive feedback loop 253
9.3. Productivity thresholds in human history: population
densities under different lifeways 268
9.4. Early monumental architecture: the White Temple at Uruk 270
9.5. The evolution of cuneiform writing in Mesopotamia 277
10.1. Models of different types of exchange networks 292
10.2. Hammurabi s law code 296
10.3. Teotihuacan 303
10.4. Malthusian cycles in China, India, and Europe, 400 bce
1900 ce 310
ILLUSTRATIONS xi
10.5. A negative feedback cycle: population, agriculture,
and the environment 311
10.6. Population and technological change: Malthusian cycles
and irrigation technologies in lowland Mesopotamia 313
11.1. Human populations, 1000 c e to now 343
11.2. An eighteenth century pin factory 356
12.1. Commercial activity in China under the Song dynasty 377
12.2. Boatbuilding in China and Europe in the fifteenth century 379
12.3. Aztec victims of smallpox in the sixteenth century 383
13.1. Global industrial potential, 1750 1980 409
13.2. Evolution of the steam engine in eighteenth century Britain 422
13.3. The rise of the West 436
15.1. Earthrise as seen from the Moon 468
15.2. A modern Malthusian cycle, 1750 2100? 477
15.3. A possible design for a space colony 485
TABLES
1.1. A chronology of the early universe 27
4.1. Some estimated free energy rate densities 81
5.1. The five kingdom scheme of classification 122
6.1. Human per capita energy consumption in historical
perspective ^
6.2. World populations and growth rates, 100,000 bp to now 143
6.3. Growth rates in different historical eras 144
8.1. A periodization of human history 210
8.2. First recorded evidence of domesticates 219
9.1. Scales of social organization 249
9.2. Energy input and population density over time 254
9.3. Typology of major technologies and lifeways 279
10.1. Chronology of early agrarian civilizations 294
10.2. Areas of Afro Eurasia within agrarian civilizations 305
10.3. Transportation revolutions in human history 307
10.4. Information revolutions in human history 308
10.5. Areas ruled by particular states and empires 317
10.6. Long term trends in urbanization in Afro Eurasia 326
11.1. World populations by region, 400 BCE 2000 ce 344
13.1. Total industrial potential, 1750 1980 407
xiv TABLES
13.2. Total industrial potential, 1750 1980, as a percentage of
global total 408
13.3. Estimates of economic growth rates in Britain, 1700 1831 412
13.4. Output of principal agricultural commodities in Britain,
1700 1850 417
13.5. Value added in British industry, 1770 1831 425
14.1. World populations, 1900 2000 443
14.2. Economic entities ranked by market value, January 2000 445
14.3. Gross national income per capita, 2000 450
14.4. Life expectancies at birth, 2000 450
14.5. Some global demographic and economic indicators, 1994 452
14.6. War related deaths, 1500 1999 458
14.7. Human induced environmental change, 10,000 bce to the
mid 1980s ce 462
15.1. A chronology of the cosmic future in an open universe 490
Ai. The geological timescale 504
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