The Star-Galaxy Era in Terms of Big History and Universal Evolution

The present article attempts at combining Big History potential with the potential of Evolutionary Studies. It does not only analyze the history of the Cosmos. It studies similarities between evolutionary laws, principles, and mechanisms at various levels and phases of Big History. Such an approach opens up some new perspectives for our understanding of evolution and Big History, their driving forces, vectors, and trends; it creates a consolidated field for interdisciplinary research. Of special importance is the point that many principles, patterns, regularities, and rules of evolution, which we tend to find relevant only for the biological and social levels of evolution, may be also applied to the cosmic phase of evolution. This is not so surpris-ing, since the formation, life-cycle and renewal of stars, galaxies, as well as other celestial bodies is the longest evolutionary process that took place in the Universe. Correspondence | Leonid E. Grinin, leonid.grinin@gmail.com Citation | Grinin, L. (2019) The Star-Galaxy Era in Terms of Big History and Universal Evolution. Journal of Big History, III(4); 99 122. DOI | https://doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v3i4.3444