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<p>INVITATION TO BIOSYSTEMS' SPECIAL ISSUE <br>
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<p>The Journal <b>Biosystems (Elsevier)</b> is preparing a
special issue devoted to examining the evolution and
dynamics of social systems from a variety of perspectives.
It will coordinated by Andrei Igamberdiev (BioSystems'
Editor in Chief) and Pedro C. Marijuan (Information
Scientist). It is an ambitious multidisciplinary enterprise
that aims to the contribution of leading figures in multiple
fields. See the rationale of the issue and a tentative list
of topics below. The deadline will be May 2020. We would
appreciate your comments and your involvement in this
intellectual venture.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Andrei & Pedro<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>A new dialog on the evolution and
dynamics of social systems<br>
</b>(Shorter form: SOCIAL SYSTEMS' NEW DIALOG) <br>
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We are living in decades of extremely fast and deep
social change at a global scale, almost unprecedented in
the historical record, and only comparable to the
combined effects of the scientific and industrial
revolutions. Making sense of the occurring
transformations and helping to orient for a viable
future –with so many challenges ahead– goes beyond any
single mind or beyond any particular branch of the
sciences, including the social sciences themselves.
Indeed a new dialog on the evolution and dynamics of
societies, from a combination of perspectives involving
all the major sciences, has become a highly convenient
and timely exercise. From its founding in 1967,
BioSystems has been an avant-garde journal, and has
explored the densest interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary
topics in the different epochs, exemplified by
charismatic chief editors such as the team formed by
Michael Conrad and Lynn Margulis. At the present social
juncture, we invite the scholarly community to join this
BioSystems special issue, apportioning views from areas
such as evolutionary biology, paleo-anthropology,
evolutionary psychology, network science, non-linear
economics, “social physics”, social psychology, social
and political sciences, artificial intelligence,
computer science, and of course the new approaches to
history and social evolution. We can only promise that
the collaboration will be an exciting collective
enterprise. <br>
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</b><b>Possible Topics</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Evolutionary sociality, Human social
systems, Communication and cultural evolution, Social
networks, Societal flows, Scaling societies, Social
Physics, Social/economic/technic information,
Informational societies, Psychology of the social,
Deconstructed societies, The World System, Hierarchies
vs. networks, Globalized civilization, Unlimited
progress?, Economic rationality?, Societal collapse?,
Historical cyclicity?, Cliodynamics. <br>
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