Contributors to the issue: Cosmic, Biological, and Social

Reznikova, Zhanna

Head of the Department of Comparative Psychology, Novosibirsk State University; Head of the Laboratory of Community Ethology, Institute for Animal Systematics and Ecology RAS Institute for Animal Systematics and Ecology Frunze st. 11,Novosibirsk, 630091,Russia

Reznikova, Zhanna

Markov, Alexander V.

Alexander V. Markov is Senior Research Fellow of the Institute for Paleontology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the author of more than 140 scientific publi-cations in zoology, paleontology, evolution theory, historical dynamics of biodiversity, and in other fields of evolutionary...

Markov, Alexander V.

Snooks, Graeme D.

Foundation Timothy Coghlan Research Professor Institute of Advanced Studies Australian National University, 1989-2010 Executive Director Institute of Global Dynamics Systems Canberra, Australia, since 2010 ...

Snooks, Graeme D.

Spier, Fred

Fred Spier is Senior Lecturer in Big History. He has organized and taught the annual ‘Big History Course’ at the University of Amsterdam since 1994, the annual ‘Big History University Lecture Series’ at the Eindhoven University of Technology since 2003, and...

Spier, Fred

Bondarenko, Dmitri M.

Russian social anthropologist, African historian. Deputy Director of the Institute of African Studies, curator of the Center for History and Cultural Anthropology and Center for the Study of Tropical African Institute, Professor of Anthropology RGGU. Co-founder and co-editor of the...

Bondarenko, Dmitri M.

Korotayev, Andrey

Head and Professor of the Laboratory for Monitoring of Sociopolitical Destabilization Risks, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, as well as a Senior Research Professor at the Institute for African Studies and the Institute of Oriental Studies of Russian Academy of...

Korotayev, Andrey

Grinin, Leonid

Leonid E. Grinin is Research Professor and Director of the Volgograd Center for Social Research, as well as Deputy Director of the Eurasian Center for Big History & System Forecasting. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Age of Globalization (in Russian), as well as a co-editor of the international journals Social Evolution & History and the Journal of Globalization Studies. His current research interests include Big History and macro-evolution, long-term trends and sociocultural evolution (especially of technology), periodization of history, world-systems studies, long-term development of political systems, globalization studies, and economic cycles. Dr. Grinin is the author of more than 300 scholarly publications in Russian and English, including 22 monographs.

Grinin, Leonid

Carneiro, Robert L.

Born in New York City on June 4, 1927, Robert Leonard Carneiro earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology in 1949 from the University of Michigan and his Master’s degree in 1952. He earned his Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1957 from the University of Michigan. ...

Carneiro, Robert L.