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Index
Cover
Dedication
Epigraph
Preface: Convergence: “The Deepest Idea in the Universe”
Introduction: “The Unity of the Observable World”
Part One: The Most Important Unifying Ideas of All Time
1. “The Greatest of All Generalizations”
2. “A Single Stroke Unifies Life, Meaning, Purpose, and Physical Law”
Part Two: The Long Arm of the Laws of Physics
3. Beneath the Pattern of the Elements
4. The Unification of Space and Time, and of Mass and Energy
5. The “Consummated Marriage” of Physics and Chemistry
6. The Interplay of Chemistry and Biology: “The Intimate Connection Between Two Kingdoms”
7. The Unity of Science Movement: “Integration Is the New Aim”
8. Hubble, Hitler, Hiroshima: Einstein’s Unifications Vindicated
Part Three: “The Friendly Invasion of the Biological Sciences by the Physical Sciences”
9. Caltech and the Cavendish: From Atomic Physics to Molecular Biology via Quantum Chemistry
10. Biology, the “Most Unifying” Science: The Switch from Reduction to Composition
Part Four: The Continuum from Minerals to Man
11. Physics + Astronomy = Chemistry + Cosmology: The Second Evolutionary Synthesis
12. A Biography of Earth: The Unified Chronology of Geology, Botany, Linguistics, and Archaeology
13. The Overlaps Between New Disciplines: Ethology, Sociobiology, and Behavioral Economics
14. Climatology + Oceanography + Ethnography → Myth = Big History
15. Civilization = The Orchestration of Geography, Meteorology, Anthropology, and Genetics
16. The Hardening of Psychology and Its Integration with Economics
17. Dreams of a Final Unification: Physics, Mathematics, Information, and the Universe
18. Spontaneous Order: The Architecture of Molecules, New Patterns in Evolution, and the Emergence of Quantum Biology
19. The Biological Origin of the Arts, Physics and Philosophy, the Physics of Society, Neurology and Nature
Conclusion: Overlaps, Patterns, Hierarchies: A Preexisting Order?
Acknowledgments
About Peter Watson
Notes and References
Index
Copyright
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