A Most Improbable Journey

Big History, the field that integrates traditional historical scholarship with scientific insights to study the full sweep of our universe, has so far been the domain of historians. Famed geologist Walter Alvarezbest known for the Impact Theory explaining dinosaur extinctionhas instead championed a science-first approach to Big History. Here he wields his unique expertise to give us a new appreciation for the incredible occurrencesfrom the Big Bang to the formation of supercontinents, the dawn of the Bronze Age, and beyondthat have led to our improbable place in the universe.