{"product_id":"quarks-to-culture-how-we-came-to-be-9780231179607","title":"Quarks to Culture: How We Came to Be","description":"\u003cp\u003eOur world is nested  both physically and socially  and at each level we find innovations that are necessary for the next. Consider: atoms combine to form molecules  molecules combine to form single-celled organisms; when people come together  they build societies. Physics has gone far in mapping the basic mechanics of the simplest things and the dynamics of the overall nesting  as have biology and the social sciences for their fields. But what can we say about this beautifully complex whole? How does one stage shape another  and what can we learn about human existence through understanding an enlarged field of creation and being?  In Quarks to Culture  Tyler Volk answers these questions  revealing how a universal natural rhythmbuilding from smaller things into larger  more complex thingsresulted in a grand sequence of twelve fundamental levels across the realms of physics  biology  and culture. He introduces the key concept of combogenesis  the building-up from combination and integration to produce new things with innovative relations. He explores common themes in how physics and chemistry led to biological evolution  and biological evolution to cultural evolution. Volk also provides insights into linkages across the sciences and fields of scholarship  and presents an exciting synthesis of ideas along a sequence of things and relations  from physical to living to cultural. The resulting inclusive natural philosophy brings clarity to our place in the world  offering a roadmap for those who seek to understand big history and wrestle with questions of how we came to be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651943325749,"sku":"ByrdShop_023117960X","price":35.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780231179607.jpg?v=1781846634","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/quarks-to-culture-how-we-came-to-be-9780231179607","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}