Introduction / Steven J. Dick and Mark L. Lupisella
Cosmic evolution : state of the science / Eric J. Chaisson
Cosmic evolution : history, culture, and human destiny / Steven J. Dick
Social evolution : state of the field / Kathryn Denning
The evolution of culture / Daniel C. Dennett
The big burp and the multiplanetary mandate / Howard Bloom
Evo devo universe? A framework for speculations on cosmic culture / John M. Smart
Dangerous memes; or, What the Pandorans let loose / Susan Blackmore
Cosmocultural evolution : the coevolution of culture and cosmos and the creation of cosmic value / Mark L. Lupisella
The intelligent universe / James Gardner
Life, mind, and culture as fundamental properties of the universe / Paul C.W. Davies
The value of "L" and the cosmic bottleneck / Seth Shostak
Encoding our origins : communicating the evolutionary epic in interstellar messages / Douglas A. Vakoch
History and science after the chronometric revolution / David Christian
Bringing culture to cosmos : the postbiological universe / Steven J. Dick
Bringing cosmos to culture : Harlow Shapley and the uses of cosmic evolution / JoAnn Palmeri.