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The Biological Overview Effect,logical overview effect produced by looking at the tiny twig of humanity on the tree of life. We describe the increasingly precise phylogenetic tree of all life on Earth and how it shows us our place in nature among the other eukaryotes, metazoa, vertebrates and apes. We discuss problems with this t

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The Universe Decentered: Transcultural Perspectives on Astrobiology and Big History,rn research establishments and technology companies and have cultures that differ from the West. Perspectives on astrobiology and alternative versions of Big History as accepted in these cultures are presented to complement a Euro- and Christo-centric Western focus. They integrate supposedly novel w

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,“Unfathomable, Bottomless, Very Deep”: Waterworld Imaginaries,ughout exoplanetary systems. This chapter makes the case for how “planetary imaginaries” (Messeri, Placing outer space: an earthly ethnography of other worlds. Duke University Press, Durham, .) are increasingly shaped and freighted with this liquid promise. The move towards flooded, fluvial and ocea

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Astrobiology and the Outer Limits of Human Ethics,d. While we might explain this in terms of protection for the purposes of science, there are at least some indications that our motivations for protection reach further, toward some notion of intrinsic value. A problem here is that we tend to discount any such notion in relation to terrestrial micro

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Towards a Planetary Polity: The Formation of Global Identity and State Structures,at global political integration is facing special conceptual challenges compared to the historic dynamics of social evolution. The article explores obstacles and catalysts for the formation of a world state. Critical global challenges put notions of national sovereignty into question. Images of Eart

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Conference proceedings 2021in 2019) exploring the relationships between big history and astrobiology and their wider implications for society. These two relatively new academic disciplines aim to integrate human history with the wider history of the universe and the search for life elsewhere. The book will show that, despite

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