Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian a poet and romantic who

a poet and romantic who grows disenchanted after joining the group

and the destruction

from corporate malfeasance to organized genocide to how once upstanding American soldiers came to abuse and torture Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib

She's seen as hot-tempered

Sexual attraction is shown as a game that often turns sour

Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian a poet and romantic whoHow did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near extinction? Big History creator David Christian gives the answers in a mind expanding cosmological detective story told on the grandest possible scale. He traces how, during eight key thresholds, the right