For those seeking a deeper understanding of Big History this volume offers an essential and insightful contribution.
In 2025, Springer published the collective monograph Navigating Complexity in Big History: Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions, edited by David J. LePoire, Leonid Grinin, and Andrey Korotayev. This work represents a systematic effort to place the periodization of Big History, a discipline encompassing 13.8 billion years of cosmic, biological, and social evolution, on a rigorous quantitative and theoretical footing. Rather than advancing a single definitive framework, the authors present several competing yet complementary models that illuminate the fundamental rhythms of cosmic and terrestrial evolution from distinct but mutually informative perspectives.
Andrey Korotayev's presentation at the conference of the International Big History Association (IBHA)
The CSRA director's report is entitled "Patterns of complexity growth in the Big History. A preliminary quantitative analysis". In his presentation, Andrey Korotayev talks about recent findings, namely about two patterns of how Big History is getting more complex. The first pattern is a slowdown in cosmic evolutionary development that had being taking place several billion years after the Big Bang. The second is the acceleration of biosocial development, which began on Earth about 4 billion years ago.
The head of CSRA presented on the Complexity Growth Patterns in Big History studies
Andrey Korotaev presented his report "Complexity Growth Patterns in Big History: Preliminary Results of a Quantitative Analysis" at the webinar "Big History Studies from Russia: Complexity, Crises, Singularities", organized by the Eurasian Center for Megahistorical and Systemic Forecasting (Moscow, Russia) together with the Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts (India) and the Oberlin Big History Movement (OBHM) in Tokyo (Japan).
Andrey V. Korotaev's presentation at the conference Humanities vs Sciences
Andrey Korotaev, head of the Laboratory, took part in the conference "Humanities vs Sciences & the Knowledge Accelerating in Modern World: Parallels and Interaction", organized by MIPT-Phystech.