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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Navigating Complexity in Big History – Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions. An Introduction (David LePoire).- Part I. Periodization: Criteria and Methodology.- Chapter 2. Comparing and Contrasting Big History Periodization Approaches (Ken Solis).- Chapter 3. Some Possible Methodological Ideas for Periodizing Big History (Leonid Grinin).- Chapter 4. Theorizing in Big History: What we are learning (Robert Aunger).- Part II. Frameworks & Periodization.- Chapter 5. Comparing and Contrasting Big History Singularity Trends of the Big Bang and Terrestrial Evolution (Andrey Korotayev).- Chapter 6. A Simple, Compatible, and Extensible Big History Framework and Periodization Based on Previous Findings (David LePoire).- Chapter 7. Integrating the Tree of Knowledge and Combogenesis Approaches to Big History (Tyler Volk).- Chapter 8. A New Theory of Evolution is Supported by the Teaching Patterns of Human Ancestors (Nick Hoggard).- Chapter 9. Unification of Biological and Cultural Evolution Through Natural Periodization (Erhard Glötzl).- Chapter 10. Big History Periodization. Complexity, Directions, and Phase Characteristics (Leonid Grinin).- Part III. Complexity Aspects in Periodization.- Chapter 11. Development of Mass and Energy Rate (Density) of Dissipative Systems over Their Lifetimes: A Comparison of a Low-Mass Star, Like our Sun, a Human and the Roman Empire (Martin van Duin).
