History & Mathematics: Big History Aspects

Leonid E. Grinin and Introduction. From the History of
Humankind Andrey V. Korotayev to Big History
I. Patterns of Big History
Eric J. Chaisson. Big History Trends and Patterns
David J. LePoire . Potential Nested Accelerating
Returns Logistic Growth in Big History
Antony Harper. A Toy Model Mechanism for
Greater-Than-Exponential
Human Population Growth
II. Hypotheses of Deep Big History
David C. Baker. 10500. The Darwinian Algorithm and a
Possible
Candidate for a 'Unifying Theme' of Big History
Tom Gehrels. The Chandra Multiverse
Leonid E. Grinin. Was There a Big Bang?
III. Biological Aspects
Edmundas Lekevicius Ecological Darwinism or Preliminary
Answers to Some Crucial though Seldom Asked
Question
Alexander V. Markov, Valery A. Anisimov, and Andrey
V. Korotaev. Relationship Between Genome Size and
Organismal Complexity in the Lineage Leading from
Prokaryotes to Mammals
IV. History and Future of Social Systems
Andrey V. Korotayev and leonid E. Grinin. A
Mathematical Model of Influence of the Interaction
between Civilization Center and Barbarian Periphery on
the World System Development
William R. Thompson Energy, Kondratieff Waves, Lead
Economies, and Their Evolutionary Implications
Leonid E. Grinin and Anton L.Grinin. Technological
Dimension of Big History and the Сybernetic Revolution
Sergey V. Dobrolyubov Global Society as Singularity
and the Point of Transition to the New Phase of Social
Evolution
Antony Harper. The Punctuated Equilibrium
Macropattem of World System Urbanization and the
Factors that Give Rise to that Macropattem
Contributors
Guidelines for Contributors