Developmental Biology Film Series
The University of Massachusetts Amherst’s official channel devoted to the National Science...
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Category: Biology and Earth Systems Science
Holism and Evolution
J. C. Smuts coined the term “holism” ( from holo-‘whole’ + -ism) in the 1920s to designate the tendency in nature to produce organized “wholes” (bodies or organisms) from the ordered grouping of units. Holism is the theory that parts of a whole are in intimate interconnection, such that they cannot exist independently of the […]
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June 2016 Environmental Evolution newsletter
Newsletter reviews Symbiogenetics, the 4th edition of Lynn Margulis’s magnum opus (Symbiosis...
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Bulletins of the International Big History Association
Origins, the bulletin of the International Big History Association, highlights the many activities, projects, and reflections that IBHA members and friends have on Big History.
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Pictures from Community Montessori’s First Big History Exhibition
This year, in lieu of a final cumulative assessment in Big History, nearly 100 teens participated in a Big History exhibition of their final projects, which were showcased on a walking tour of the eight thresholds of increasing complexity in the story of our universe, planet, and humanity. The teens invited family and other community […]
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Deep Time Walk
The Deep Time Walk is a 4.6km walking audio history of life. This unfolding takes you from 4.6bn years ago to the present day, with each metre representing one million years. As you walk you begin to recognise the long geological processes and self-regulating patterns that have produced the conditions for the evolution of life. […]
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March 2016 Environmental Evolution newsletter
Various news articles and links. A discussion of the context and background for Lynn...
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Spirituality as Common Sense
Spirituality as Common Sense In this website there has been an ongoing background discussion about...
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Our Chemical Eden
“To figure out the origin of life might take a conceptual shift towards seeing it as a pattern of molecular energy.” This article suggests a process for the chemical formation of life within deep-see geologic formations.
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The Problems with Big History and Turning Science into Myth
A discussion of the richness of the new cosmology beyond Big History.
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