- Barry Rodrigue is an archaeologist, geographer and professor of anthropology at the School for Liberal Arts, Symbiosi... moreBarry Rodrigue is an archaeologist, geographer and professor of anthropology at the School for Liberal Arts, Symbiosis International University, Pune, Maharashtra, India. He began his career in Alaska, where he established the journal, Archipelago, to bring together cultural materials from around the North Pacific. This led to a Folkways Records production, The Southeast Alaska Folk Tradition, now part of the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Sound series. A Fulbright Scholar, he worked as a research geographer at Laval University (Quebec) and associate professor of humanities at the University of Southern Maine. His clients include the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Australian National University, and the Open World Leadership Program (US Congress). A founder of the International Big History Association (IBHA), he serves as its international coordinator. He is also a founding member of the Eurasian Center for Megahistory & System Forecasting (Russian Academy of Sciences), the Asian Big History Association, and the Big History Association of India. His latest work (2015–2017) is the three-volume collection, From Big Bang to Galactic Civilizations: A Big History Anthology, which brought together 100 scholars from 25 nations.edit
Interview about the origins of my views on Megahistory (Big History) and human existence.
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... _____. Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. _____. Seoul (South Korea), personal communication (e-mail) to Barry Rodrigue, Lewiston, Maine, 29 June 2010. Cook, Michael. A Brief... more
... _____. Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. _____. Seoul (South Korea), personal communication (e-mail) to Barry Rodrigue, Lewiston, Maine, 29 June 2010. Cook, Michael. A Brief History of the Human Race. ...
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The first step was to identify where these courses were being taught, their content and audience, and who was doing it. So, upon his return to the States, Barry Rodrigue and his colleague, chemist Dan Stasko, set about gathering this... more
The first step was to identify where these courses were being taught, their content and audience, and who was doing it. So, upon his return to the States, Barry Rodrigue and his colleague, chemist Dan Stasko, set about gathering this information. The Directory grew in a very organic manner. Barry and Dan put together a list of the courses about
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As a result of the combination of great linguistic and cultural diversity, the highland populations of Daghestan present an excellent opportunity to test the hypothesis of language-gene coevolution at a fine geographic scale. However,... more
As a result of the combination of great linguistic and cultural diversity, the highland populations of Daghestan present an excellent opportunity to test the hypothesis of language-gene coevolution at a fine geographic scale. However, previous genetic studies generally have been restricted to uniparental markers and have not included many of the key populations of the region. To improve our understanding of the genetic structure of Daghestani populations and to investigate possible correlations between genetic and linguistic variation, we analyzed ~550 000 autosomal single nucleotide polymorphisms, phylogenetically informative Y chromosome markers and mtDNA haplotypes in 21 ethnic Daghestani groups. We found high levels of population structure in Daghestan consistent with the hypothesis of long-term isolation among populations of the highland Caucasus. Highland Daghestani populations exhibit extremely high levels of between-population diversity for all genetic systems tested, leading to some of the highest FST values observed for any region of the world. In addition, we find a significant positive correlation between gene and language diversity, suggesting that these two aspects of human diversity have coevolved as a result of historical patterns of social interaction among highland farmers at the community level. Finally, our data are consistent with the hypothesis that most Daghestanian-speaking groups descend from a common ancestral population (~6000-6500 years ago) that spread to the Caucasus by demic diffusion followed by population fragmentation and low levels of gene flow.Journal of Human Genetics advance online publication, 26 November 2015; doi:10.1038/jhg.2015.132.
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The rapidly globalizing world needs global knowledge and a global overview. That is why the ideas of universal history or Big History, which cover all of the Universe's existence, from the Big Bang to the present human networking of the... more
The rapidly globalizing world needs global knowledge and a global overview. That is
why the ideas of universal history or Big History, which cover all of the Universe's existence,
from the Big Bang to the present human networking of the planet, are becoming more and
more popular. This volume includes a number of the exciting works in this relatively new
field that, along with a macroevolutionary approach, seek to develop an inclusive view of
the Cosmos, Earth, life and humanity by erasing boundaries between disciplines.
This volume is the second in a series of almanacs that has Evolution as its general
subject and title. This volume is also a special edition with the subtitle: A Big History
Perspective. We have tried to collect a wide variety of contributions by very different authors
– not only from different countries, but also authors who have very different educational
backgrounds (historians, astrophysicists, biologists, sociologists, geologists, psychologists,
archaeologists and others). All of them have come to the shared understanding that we need
a unified picture of the evolution of the Universe.
The first section of the Almanac (‘Evolution and Understanding of Big History’) presents
articles analyzing the evolution of views on the development of the Universe and
the Big History concept itself. The second section (‘Big History's Trends and Phases’)
analyzes major phases of Big History (cosmic, geological, biological, social), including
some possible forecasts. The third section (‘Essays on Big History’) considers literature,
art and poetry, as well as the teaching of children and personal views of the world – all
through the prism of Big History.
This Almanac will be useful both for those who study interdisciplinary macroproblems
and for specialists working in focused directions, as well as for those who are interested
in evolutionary issues of Astrophysics, Geology, Biology, History, Anthropology,
Linguistics and other areas of study. More than that, this edition will challenge and excite
your vision of your own life and the exciting new discoveries going on around us!
why the ideas of universal history or Big History, which cover all of the Universe's existence,
from the Big Bang to the present human networking of the planet, are becoming more and
more popular. This volume includes a number of the exciting works in this relatively new
field that, along with a macroevolutionary approach, seek to develop an inclusive view of
the Cosmos, Earth, life and humanity by erasing boundaries between disciplines.
This volume is the second in a series of almanacs that has Evolution as its general
subject and title. This volume is also a special edition with the subtitle: A Big History
Perspective. We have tried to collect a wide variety of contributions by very different authors
– not only from different countries, but also authors who have very different educational
backgrounds (historians, astrophysicists, biologists, sociologists, geologists, psychologists,
archaeologists and others). All of them have come to the shared understanding that we need
a unified picture of the evolution of the Universe.
The first section of the Almanac (‘Evolution and Understanding of Big History’) presents
articles analyzing the evolution of views on the development of the Universe and
the Big History concept itself. The second section (‘Big History's Trends and Phases’)
analyzes major phases of Big History (cosmic, geological, biological, social), including
some possible forecasts. The third section (‘Essays on Big History’) considers literature,
art and poetry, as well as the teaching of children and personal views of the world – all
through the prism of Big History.
This Almanac will be useful both for those who study interdisciplinary macroproblems
and for specialists working in focused directions, as well as for those who are interested
in evolutionary issues of Astrophysics, Geology, Biology, History, Anthropology,
Linguistics and other areas of study. More than that, this edition will challenge and excite
your vision of your own life and the exciting new discoveries going on around us!