The beginning of the story

In his book, historian David Christian presents a comprehensive narrative of the history of the universe, planet Earth and humanity from the Big Bang to the present day. Using an innovative approach known as Big History, he connects findings from the natural and social sciences, allowing him to describe more than thirteen billion years of history as a single, continuous story. His narrative is based on eight key thresholds that predetermined the direction of future development and always created entirely new possibilities for the structuring of matter and the organisation of society.