Cosmic Evolution and Universal Evolutionary Principles
* Article: Cosmic Evolution and Universal Evolutionary Principles. By Leonid Grinin. In: [[Evolution Almanac]]: Evolution: From Big Bang to Nanorobots.
Description
"The present article attempts at combining Big History potential with the potential of Evolutionary Studies in order to achieve the following goals:
1) to apply the historical narrative principle to the description of the star-galaxy era of the cosmic phase of Big History;
2) to analyze both the cosmic history and similarities and differences between evolutionary laws, principles, and mechanisms at various levels and phases of Big History.
As far as I know, nobody has approached this task in a systemic way yet. It appears especially important to demonstrate that many evolutionary principles, patterns, regularities, and rules, which we tend to find relevant only for higher levels and main lines of evolution, can be also applied to cosmic evolution."