Complexity in Universal Evolution: A Big History Perspective
暫譯: 普遍演化中的複雜性：大歷史觀點
Lepoire, David J., Grinin, Leonid, Korotayev, Andrey
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2026-07-14
- 售價: $6,740
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $6,403
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 608
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 3032205166
- ISBN-13: 9783032205162
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商品描述
This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of how complexity emerges, transforms, and accelerates across the entire 13.8-billion-year history of the Universe. It brings together chapters from leading researchers to explore the deep structure of complexity--from cosmic origins and planetary evolution to biological innovation, human development, civilizational dynamics, and possible future trajectories.
Notably, several chapters bridge multiple phases of Big History, providing valuable cross-disciplinary insights--such as comparisons between cosmic and terrestrial evolution and analyses of energy dissipation across physical and complex adaptive systems. This book offers a comprehensive exploration of complexity's manifestations and transformations across time and scale. By exploring these diverse topics, the book contributes to the broader field of Big History, deepening our understanding of complexity's interconnected nature across the cosmos, life, and human civilization.商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書提供了一個全面且跨學科的檢視，探討複雜性如何在整個138億年的宇宙歷史中出現、轉變和加速。它匯集了來自領先研究者的章節，探索複雜性的深層結構——從宇宙起源和行星演化到生物創新、人類發展、文明動態以及可能的未來軌跡。
值得注意的是，幾個章節橋接了大歷史的多個階段，提供了有價值的跨學科見解——例如，宇宙與地球演化之間的比較，以及對物理系統和複雜適應系統中能量耗散的分析。
這本書全面探討了複雜性在時間和尺度上的表現與轉變。通過探索這些多樣的主題，該書對大歷史的更廣泛領域做出了貢獻，加深了我們對複雜性在宇宙、生命和人類文明中相互聯繫本質的理解。
作者簡介
David J. Lepoire has a Ph.D. in computer science from DePaul University in Chicago, USA, and a B.S. in physics from California Institute of Technology, USA. He has worked in environmental and energy areas for many governmental agencies over the past 25 years.
Andrey V. Korotayev is Director of the Center for Stability and Risks Analysis at the HSE University in Moscow, Russia. He is also Senior Research Professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies and Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as at the Faculty of Global Studies of the Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
Leonid E. Grinin is a Russian Sociologist, Political Anthropologist, Economist, and Scholar of historical trends and future studies. He is Senior Research Professor at the Institute for Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and Leading Research Fellow of the Laboratory for Destabilization Risk Monitoring of the National Research University Higher School of Economics. He is Director of the Eurasian Center for Big History & System Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Research Professor and Director of the Volgograd Center for Social Research. He is Vice-President of the International Kondratieff Fund and Member of the International Big History Association.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
David J. Lepoire 擁有美國芝加哥德保羅大學的計算機科學博士學位，以及美國加州理工學院的物理學學士學位。在過去的25年中，他在多個政府機構的環境和能源領域工作。
Andrey V. Korotayev 是俄羅斯莫斯科高等經濟學院穩定性與風險分析中心的主任。他同時也是俄羅斯科學院東方研究所和非洲研究所的高級研究教授，以及莫斯科國立大學全球研究學院和俄羅斯總統國家經濟與公共行政學院的教授。
Leonid E. Grinin 是俄羅斯社會學家、政治人類學家、經濟學家，以及歷史趨勢和未來研究的學者。他是俄羅斯科學院東方研究所的高級研究教授，並擔任國立研究大學高等經濟學院不穩定風險監測實驗室的首席研究員。他是俄羅斯科學院歐亞大歷史與系統預測中心的主任，以及伏爾加格勒社會研究中心的研究教授和主任。他是國際康德拉季耶夫基金的副總裁，並且是國際大歷史協會的成員。
