A macro-evolutionary approach and the new field of Big History seeks to develop an inclusive view of the Cosmos, Earth, life and humanity by erasing boundaries between disciplines.

Table of Contents below:

 

I. Evolution and Understanding of Big History

David Christian    The Evolution of Big History: A Short Introduction . .

Fred Spier  Big History Research: A First Outline . . . . . .

Eric J. Chaisson   Cosmic Evolution – More Than Big History by Another Name . . . . . . . . .

Alexander Mirkovic  Big History and the End of History . . . .

Barry H. Rodrigue   The Evolution of Macro-History in the United States . . . . . . . . . .

Akop P. Nazaretyan  Mega-Evolution and Big History . . . . . . . .

 

II. Big History’s Trends and Phases

G. Siegfried Kutter   Big History: A Personal Perspective . . . . . . .

Tom Gehrels  The Chandra Multiverse . . . . .

Walter Alvarez, Alessandro Montanari, and David Shimabukuro –Ex Libro Lapidum Historia Mundi: Reading History Written in Rocks . . . . . . . .

Leonid E. Grinin, Andrey V. Korotayev, Alexander V. Markov–Biological and Social Phases of Big History: Similarities and Differences of Evolutionary Principles and Mechanisms . . . . . . . .

David Hookes–The Evolution of Information Systems: From the Big Bang to the Era of Globalisation . . . . . .

Alexander D. Panov–Post-singular Evolution and Post-singular Civilizations . .

 

III. Essays on Big History

Nigel C. Hughes–The Change We Сan Believe in: Ten Facts about the Evolution of the Earth-Life System and their Relevance to Current Global Environmental Change. .

Jos Werkhoven–Once upon a Time… There was a Story to be Told…

Erika K. H. Gronek–And Then There Was You…: A Children’s Story of Science and Emotion . . . . . .

Paula Metallo–Brain Stretching: Art and Big History . . . .

Gary Lawless–Big History and Bioregions . . . . . .

Esther Quaedackers–A Little Big History of Tiananmen . . . . .

Roland Saekow–From Concept to Reality: Developing a Zoomable Timeline for Big History . . . . . .

James Tierney–Two Themes Inherent in Big History . . . . . .