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Brown, Cynthia Stokes.
A big history : from the Big Bang to the present / Cynthia Stokes Brown.
p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-595-58558-5
1. World history. 2. Human ecology. I. Title.
D20.B77 2007
909—dc22 2007006741
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