You go to the cosmologists and ask how they tell the history of the universe; you go to the geologists, how do… — David Christian Ask Copy Share Image
“thus animals without symbolic language may lack the ability humans have to deliberately think about the past and imagine the future.” — David Christian Time Copy Share Image
Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it. — David Christian Big Copy Share Image
Big History's not going to replace existing educational courses. It's not an attack on specialisation. It is simply the argument that specialisation… — David Christian Argument Copy Share Image
I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of… — David Christian After Copy Share Image
“an eleventh-century CE Muslim prince from Tabaristan wrote in a book for his son, “Make it your constant endeavor to improve cultivation… — David Christian Books Copy Share Image
“In the 1990s, global military expenditures declined by perhaps 40 percent, and stocks of weapons of all kinds fell.” — David Christian Investing Copy Share Image
“the elements of a modern creation myth are all around us. It is harmful because it contributes to the subtle but pervasive… — David Christian Modern life Copy Share Image
“If modernity is, as I will argue, a global phenomenon, a Eurocentric approach is bound to mislead us. More recently, historians interested… — David Christian World history Copy Share Image
Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth. — David Christian Accounts Copy Share Image
“Bioarchaeologists have linked the agricultural transition to a significant decline in nutrition and to increases in disease, mortality, overwork, and violence in… — David Christian Copy Share Image
