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ABSTRACT

1.THE EARLY EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE
1.1.Redshift
1.2.Dynamics

2.BIG BANG NUCLEOSYNTHESIS AND THE PRIMORDIAL ABUNDANCES
2.1.An Early Universe Chronology
2.2.The SBBN-Predicted Abundances
2.3.Variations On A Theme: Non-Standard BBN

3.OBSERVATIONAL STATUS OF THE RELIC ABUNDANCES
3.1.Deuterium
3.2.Helium-3
3.3.Helium-4
3.4.Lithium-7

4.CONFRONTATION OF THEORETICAL PREDICTIONS WITH OBSERVATIONAL DATA
4.1.Deuterium - The Baryometer Of Choice
4.2.SBBN Baryon Density - The Baryon Density At 20 Minutes
4.3.CMB Baryon Density - The Baryon Density At A Few Hundred Thousand Years
4.4.The Baryon Density At 10 Gyr
4.5.Baryon Density Concordance
4.6.Testing The Consistency Of SBBN

5.BBN IN NON-STANDARD MODELS
5.1.Degenerate BBN

6.SUMMARY

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