Evolution. From Big Bang to Nanorobots

Introduction. Once More about Aspects, Directions,
General Patterns and Principles of Evolutionary
Development
I. Universal Evolutionary Principles
Leonid E. Grinin. Cosmic Evolution and Universal
Evolutionary Principles
David J. LePoire. Potential Nested Accelerating Returns
Logistic Growth in Big History
David Christian. Universal Darwinism and Human History
David Baker. Collective Learning as a Key Concept in Big
History
Craig G. Benjamin. Collective Learning and the Silk
Roads
II. Biosocial Evolution, Ecological Aspects, and
Consciousness
Andrey V. Korotayev, Alexander V. Markov, and Leonid
E. Grinin. Modeling of Biological and Social Phases of Big
History
Alexander D. Panov. Prcbiological Panspermia and the
Hypothesis of the Self-Consistent Galaxy Origin of Life
Olga A. Sorokina and Rendt Gorter. Social Evolution of
Humankind as an Integral Part of the Evolution of the
Biosphere
Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison . The
'Ahimsa Factor': Ecological Non-Violence Process
Analysis in China and Its Implications for Global
Paradigmatic Shifts
Ilya V, Ponomuriov. Situational Binding and Inner
Speech: Cross-Sectional Evidences
III. Projects for the Future
Valentino M. Bondarenko. Governing the Time Will
Govern Development - or, Territory of Faster
Development: Everything for People' Megaproject
Realization Proposals
Vastly N. Vasilenko. The Noospheric Concept of
Evolution, Globalization and Big History
Anton L. Grinin and Leonid E. Grinin. Cybernetic
Revolution and Forthcoming Technological
Transformations (The Development of the Leading
Technologies in the Light of the Theory of Production
Revolutions)
In Memoriam
Contributors
Guidelines for Contributors