TY - BOOK AU - Baker,David AU - Green,John TI - The shortest history of our universe: the unlikely journey from the big bang to us T2 - The shortest history series SN - 978-1-615-19-973-0 AV - QB 982 B35 2022 U1 - 523.1 23/eng/20221220 PY - 2022/// CY - New York PB - The Experiment, LLC KW - COSMOLOGY KW - POPULAR WORKS N1 - Includes index; Part one The Inanimate Phase: The Big Bang ; Stars, Galaxies, and Complexity ; Origin of the Earth -- Part two The Animate Phase: Life and evolution ; Explosions and extinctions ; Primate evolution -- Part three The Cultural Phase: Human foragers ; The dawn of agriculture ; Agrarian States ; The unification of the world ; The Anthropocene -- Part four The Unknown Phase: The near and deep future N2 - "A complete history of the universe, spanning 13.8 billion years in an ultra-accessible, exhilarating chronicle of key events"-- ER -