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| - | :Natural history is the scientific study of plants and animals in their natural environments. It is concerned with levels of organization from the individual organism to the ecosystem, and stresses identification, life history, distribution, abundance, and inter-relationships. It often and appropriately includes an esthetic component.—Stephen Herman, 2002 | + | '''Big History''' examines [[history]] on a [[Epoch (cosmology)|large scale]] across long [[time frame]]s through a multi-disciplinary approach. |
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| - | '''Natural history''' is the [[scientific research]] of [[plant]]s or [[animal]]s, leaning more towards the [[observation]]al than [[experiment]]al methods of study, and encompasses more research that is published in [[magazine]]s than in [[academic journal]]s. Grouped among the [[natural sciences]], ''Natural history'' is the [[scientific research|systematic study]] of any category of natural objects or organisms. That is a very broad designation in a world filled with many narrowly focused disciplines, so while modern natural history dates [[historical]]ly from studies in the ancient [[Greco-Roman world]] and then the [[Muslim Agricultural Revolution|medieval Arabic world]] through to the scattered European [[Renaissance]] scientists working in near isolation, today's field is more of a cross discipline umbrella of many specialty sciences that like [[geobiology]] have a strong multi-disciplinary nature combining scientists and scientific knowledge of many specialty sciences. | + | |
| - | == See also == | + | |
| - | *[[Natural philosophy]] | + | |
| - | *[[Natural science]] | + | |
| - | *[[Naturalism (philosophy)]] | + | |
| - | *[[Nature documentary]] | + | |
| - | *[[Nature Writing|Nature writing]] | + | |
| - | *[[Nature]] | + | |
| - | *[[Nature study]] | + | |
| - | *[[Big History]] | + | |
| - | *[[Timeline of evolution]] | + | |
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Big History examines history on a large scale across long time frames through a multi-disciplinary approach.
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