Big Bang and Beyond (Pyramids, Plato, and Planets)

By Fred Benham

This book, unlike the remaining eight books, contains very little math since it covers a time frame prior to the development of mathematics; it does however, contain a fair amount of the results of scientific studies, especially in the areas of cosmology, geology, biology, zoology, anthropology, and chemistry. It is intended to describe the major events that occurred from the beginning of the universe (13.7 billion years ago) to the dawn of civilization (3300 BC). Key to arriving at the dawn of civilization is, of course, the evolution of life, which is believed to have begun 4.0 billion years ago (600 million years after the formation of our solar system). First life was cellular in nature (all life is cellular) and the first cell had most of the functions that cells have today; functions missing from the first cell were the functions of sexual reproduction, which took three billion years to evolve, and multicellular life, which also took three billion years to evolve. Cellular functions are very complicated and there is no clear evolutionary path from the fundamental building blocks of life to the first cell. All life evolved from that single cell which lived four billion years ago; for this reason, an appendix is included in this book which goes into a reasonable amount of detail concerning the building blocks of life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1549763652
• ISBN13: 9781549763656
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.5" x 5.1"