Evolution: A Big History Perspective
Publisher: Uchitel publishing House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Volgograd, Russia
Language: eng
Format: paperback
ISBN-13: 9785705729050
Description: This issue of the almanac aims at filling the gap in the mega-evolutionary research. The Editors believe that the present Almanac, which brings together scientists working in different areas of the vast evolutionary field, will hopefully make a contribution to this process.The contributions to this volume are subdivided into three sections:‘Universal Evolution’, ‘Biological and Social Forms of Evolution: Connections and Comparisons’, and ‘Aspects of Social Evolution’. Subjects and issues of the contributions to all three sections have a great deal in common and significantly supplement each other.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Evolution and Big History: From Multiverse to Galactic Civilizations; title: I. Evolution and Understanding of Big History; title: David Christian The Evolution of Big History: A Short Introduction; title: Fred Spier Big History Research: A First Outline; title: Eric J. Chaisson Cosmic Evolution – More Than Big History by Another Name; title: Alexander Mirkovic Big History and the End of History; title: Barry H. Rodrigue	The Evolution of Macro-History in the United States; title: Akop P. Nazaretyan Mega-Evolution and Big History; title: II. Big History's  Trends and Phases; title: G. Siegfried Kutter Big History: A Personal Perspective; title: Tom Gehrels The Chandra Multiverse; title: Walter Alvarez, Alessandro Montanari, and David Shimabukuro Ex Libro Lapidum Historia Mundi: Reading History  Written in Rocks; title: Leonid E. Grinin, Andrey V. Korotayev, Alexander V. Markov Biological and Social Phases of Big History: Similarities and Differences of Evolutionary Principles and Mechanisms; title: David Hookes The Evolution of Information Systems: From the Big Bang to the Era of Globalisation; title: Alexander D. Panov Post-singular Evolution and Post-singular Civilizations; title: III. Essays on Big History; title: Nigel C. HughesThe Change We Can Believe in: Ten Facts about the Evolution of the Earth-Life System and their Relevance to Current Global Environmental Change; title: Jos Werkhoven Once upon a Time… There was a Story to be Told…; title: Erika K. H. Gronek And Then There Was You…: A Children's Story of Science and Emotion; title: Paula Metallo Brain Stretching: Art and Big History; title: Gary Lawless Big History and Bioregions; title: Esther Quaedackers A Little Big History of Tiananmen  .; title: Roland Saekow	From Concept to Reality: Developing a Zoomable Timeline for Big History; title: James Tierney	Two Themes Inherent in Big History