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'What is history anyway? Most would say it's what happened in the past, but how far back does the past extend? To the first written sources? To what other forms of evidence reveal about pre-literate civilizations? And what does the term "civilization" mean - an empire, a nation, a city, a village, a family, a lonely hermit somewhere? Why stop with people: shouldn't history also comprise the environment in which they exist, and if so on what scale and how far back? And why stop with the earth and the solar system? Why not go all the way back to the Big Bang itself? This inaugural volume of the SFI Press - and the first of the SFI Press Seminar Series - attempts to address these questions via thoguthful essays on history written by distinguished scholars - including Nobel laurate Murray Gell-Mann - from across a wide range of fields' --

Complexity (Philosophy). --- Evolution (Biology). --- History --- Interdisciplinary research. --- Social evolution. --- Methodology.