Evolution: Development within Big History, Evolutionary and World-System Paradigms
Publisher: Uchitel Publishing House
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9785705737420
Table of contents: title: At the Junction of Theories and Paradigms
label: Introduction.; title: I. Globalization as an Evolutionary Process: Yesterday and Today; title: Kondratieff Waves, Evolution and Globalization
label: George Modelski; title: Globalization and the World System Evolution
label: Leonid E. Grinin and Andrey V. Korotayev; title: Globalization and Mathematical Modeling of Global Evolution
label: Andrey V. Korotayev; title: II. Society, Energy, and Future; title: Energy, Kondratieff Waves, Lead Economies, and Their Evolutionary Implications
label: William R.Thompson; title: Potential Economic and Energy Indicators of Inflection in Complexity
label: David LePoire; title: Profiling ‘Threshold 9’: Using Big History as a Frame-Work for Thinking about the Contours of the Coming Global Future
label: Joseph Voros; title: III. Aspects of social development; title: Macroevolution of Technology
label: Leonid E. Grinin and Anton L. Grinin; title: Global Volcanism as It Impacts the Integrity of the World System
label: Tony Harper; title: Corbally and Margaret Boone Rappaport Global Volcanism as It Impacts the Integrity of the World System
label: Christopher J.; title: ‘Natural’ States and the Development of Democracy
label: Neil Robinson; title: IV. The driving forces and patterns of evolution; title: The Darwinian Algorithm and a Possible Candidate for a ‘Unifying Theme’ of Big History
label: David Baker; title: Complication of Animal Genomes in the Course of the Evolution Slowed Down after the Cambrian Explosion
label: Dmitry A. Skladnev, Sergey P. Klykov, and Vladimir V. Kurakov; title: An Evolutionary and Anthropological Examination of Brain/Mind and Novelty
label: Arthur Saniotis, Maciej Henneberg, and Jaliya Kumaratilake; title: Discussion. Evolution: pro et contra; title: Gregory Sandstrom Peace for Evolution's Puzzle: The Arrival of Human Extension; title: Claessen A New Theory or a New Ideology? Reply to Gregory Sandstrom
label: Henri J. M.; title: Reviews and Notes; title: Proceedings of the conference ‘teaching and researching big history: exploring a new scholarly field’
label: David Baker; title: Contributors; title: Guidelines for Contributors