Contents
Introduction 5
I. Evolution and Understanding of Big History
David Christian  | The Evolution of Big History: A Short Introduction
Abstract 20 |
| Fred Spier | Big History Research: A First Outline
Abstract 26 |
| Eric J. Chaisson | Cosmic Evolution – More Than Big History by Another Name
Abstract, Full text (.doc, .pdf) 37 |
| Alexander Mirkovic | Big History and the End of History
Abstract, Full text (.doc, .pdf) 49 |
| Barry Rodrigue | The Evolution of Macro-History in the United States
Abstract, Full text (.doc, .pdf) 71 
Fig. John Mears, David Christian, Tom Gehrels, Eric Chaisson, Fred Spier (left to right). Big History panel at the Fourth In-ternational Conference of The Historical Society, Boothbay Harbor, Maine (USA) June 2004. Photograph by Kim Dionne. |
| Akop Nazaretyan | Mega-Evolution and Big History
Abstract, Full text (.doc, .pdf) 82 |
II. Big History's Trends and Phases
| G. Siegfried Kutter | Stars, Life and Society: Evolution in the Making
Abstract, Full text (.doc, .pdf) 101 |
| Tom Gehrels | The Chandra Multiverse
Abstract, Full text (.doc, .pdf) 121 |
| Walter Alvarez , Alessandro Montanari
and David Shimabukuro | Ex Libro Lapidum Historia Mundi: Reading History Written in Rocks
Abstract, Full text (.doc, .pdf) 145 |
| Leonid E.Grinin,
Andrey V. Korotayev, Alexander V. Markov | Biological and Social Phases of Big History: Similarities and Diversities of Evolution Principles and Mechanisms
Abstract, Full text (.doc, .pdf) 158 |
| David Hookes | The Evolution of Information Systems: From the Big Bang to the Era of Globalisation
Abstract, Full text (.doc, .pdf) 199 
Diagram. The evolution of information systems: From the Big Bang to the Internet
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| Alexander Panov | Post-singular Evolution and Post-singular Civilizations
Abstract, Full text (.doc, .pdf) 212 |
III. Essays on Big History
| Nigel Hughes | The Change We Can Believe In: Ten Facts about the Evolution of the Earth-Life System and their Relevance to current Global Environmental Change
Abstract, Full text (.doc, .pdf) 232 |
| Jos Werkhoven | Once upon a Time… There was a Story to be Told…
Abstract, Full text (.doc, .pdf) 239 
Fig. 1b. From Powers of Ten, P. and P. Morrison (1985: 21–103)
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| Erika K. H. Gronek | And Then There Was You…: A Children's Story of Science and Emotion
Abstract, Full text (.doc, .pdf) 253 
Erika K. H. Gronek
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| Paula Metallo | Brain Stretching: Art and Big History
Abstract, Full text (.doc, .pdf) 256 
Fig. 2. Particular, mosaic, Pompeiano, year 79 CE
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| Gary Lawless | Big History, Bioregionalism and Geopoetics
Abstract, Full text (.doc, .pdf) 264 |
| Esther Quaedackers | A little big history of Tiananmen
Abstract, Full text (.doc, .pdf) 269 |
| Roland Saekow | From Concept to Reality: Developing a Zoomable timeline for Big History
Abstract, Full text (.doc, .pdf) 281 |
| James Tierney | Two Themes Inherent in Big History
Abstract, Full text (.doc, .pdf) 287 |
