Evolution: Cosmic, Biological, and Social
Publisher: Uchitel Publishing House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Volgograd, Russia
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9785705727841
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Evolutionary Megaparadigm: Potential, Problems, Perspectives; title: I. Universal Evolution; title: Fred Spier "How Big History Works: Energy Flows and the Rise and Demise of Complexity "; title: Robert L. Carneiro "Stellar Evolution and Social Evolution: A Study in Parallel Processes "; title: II. Biological and Social forms of Evolution: Connections and Comparisons; title: Graeme D. Snooks 	"Constructing a General Theory of Life: The Dynamics of Human and Non-human Systems "; title: Edmundas Lekevičius "Ecological Darwinism or Preliminary Answers to Some Crucial though Seldom Asked Questions"; title: Zhanna Reznikova "Evolutionary and Behavioural Aspects of Altruism in Animal Communities: Is There Room for Intelligence? "; title: Leonid E. Grinin, Alexander V. Markov, and Andrey V. Korotayev "Biological and Social Aromorphoses: A Comparison between Two Forms of Macroevolution"; title: III. Aspects of Social Evoluton; title: Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Leonid E. Grinin, Andrey V. Korotayev "Social Evolution: Alternatives and Variations (Introduction)"; title: Christopher Chase-Dunn "Evolution of Nested Networks in the Prehistoric U.S. Southwest: A Comparative World-Systems Approach"; title: Francis Heylighen 	"Conceptions of a Global Brain: An Historical Review"