Evolution. Development within Big History, Evolutionary and World-System Paradigms

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"Эволюция: Развитие в рамках мегаистории, эволюционной и мир-системной парадигм". Альманах на английском языке. The application of the evolutionary approach to the history of nature and society has remained one of the most effective ways to conceptualize and integrate our growing knowledge of the Universe, life, society and human thought. The present volume demonstrates this in a rather convincing way. This is the third issue of the Almanac series titled '
Evolution'
. The first volume came out with the sub-heading '
Cosmic, Biological, and Social'
, the second was entitled '
Evolution: A Big History Perspective'
. The present volume is subtitled Development within Big History. Evolutionary and World-System Paradigms. In addition to the straightforward evolutionary approach, it also reflects such adjacent approaches as Big History, the world-system analysis, as well as globalization paradigm and long wave theory. The volume includes a number of the exciting works in these fields. The Almanac consists of five sections. The first section (Globalization as an Evolutionary Process: Yesterday and Today) contains articles demonstrating that the Evolutionary studies is capable of creating a common platform for the world-system approach, globalization studies, and the economic long-wave theory. The articles of the second section {Society, Energy, and Future) discuss the role of energy in the universal evolution, human history and the future of humankind. The third section (Aspects of Social Development) touches upon four aspects of social evolution technological, environmental, cultural, and political. The fourth section (The Driving Forces and Patterns of Evolution) deals with various phases of megaevolution. There is also a final section which is devoted to discussions of contemporary evolutionism. This Almanac will be useful both for those who study interdisciplinary macro-problems and for specialists working in focused directions, as well as for those who arc interested in evolutionary issues of Cosmology, Biology, History, Anthropology, Economics and other areas of study. More than that, this edition will challenge and excite your vision of your own life and the new discoveries going on around us!

Содержание Evolution. Development within Big History, Evolutionary and World-System Paradigms

Introduction. At the Junction of Theories and
Paradigms
I. Globalization as an Evolutionary Process: Yesterday
and Today
George Modelski. Kondratieff Waves, Evolution and
Globalization
LeonidE. Grinin and Andrey V. Korotayev. Globalization
and the World System Evolution
Audrey V. Korotayev. Globalization and Mathematical
Modeling of Global Evolution
II. Society, Energy, and Future
William R. Thompson. Energy, Kondratieff Waves, Lead
Economies, and Their Evolutionary Implications
David LePoire. Potential Economic and Energy
Indicators of Inflection in Complexity
Joseph Voros. Profiling '
Threshold 9'
: Using Big History
as a Frame-Work for Thinking about the Contours of
the Coming Global Future
III. Aspects of Social Development
Leonid E. Grinin and Anton L. Grinin. Macroevolution of
Technology
Tony Harper. Global Volcanism as It Impacts the
Integrity of the World System
Christopher J. Corhally and Margaret Boone
Rappaport.
Crossing the Latest Line: The Evolution of Religious
Thought as a Component of Human Sentience
Neil Robinson. '
Natural'
States and the Development of
Democracy
IV. The Driving Forces and Patterns of Evolution
David Baker. 10500. The Darwinian Algorithm and a
Possible Candidate for a '
Unifying Theme'
of Big History
Dmitry A. Skladnev, Sergey P. Klykov, and Vladimir V.
Kurakov. Complication of Animal Genomes in the Course
of the Evolution Slowed Down after the Cambrian
Explosion
Arthur Saniotis, Maciej Henneberg, and Jaliya
Kumaratilake. An Evolutionary and Anthropological
Examination of Brain/Mind and Novelty
Discussion. Evolution: Pro et Contra
Gregory Sandstrom. Peace for Evolution'
s Puzzle: The
Arrival of Human Extension
Henri J. M. Claessen. A New Theory or a New
Ideology
Reply to Gregory Sandstrom
Reviews and Notes
David Baker. Proceedings of the Conference '
Teaching
and Researching Big History: Exploring a New Scholarly
Field'

Contributors
Guidelines for Contributors

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