Table of Contents
Life as a Space Phenomenon.- The Spread of Life Throughout the Cosmos.- Our Understanding of the Evolution of the Sun and its Death.- Planetary Cosmogony: Creation of Homeland for Life and Civilization.- Impact Phenomena: In the Laboratory, on the Earth, and in the Solar System.- The Origin of Life.- The Structural Regularities of Encoding of the Genetic Information in DNA Chromosomes.- The Origin of Life on the Earth: As a Natural Bioreactor Might Arise.- Volcanoes and Life: Life Arises Everywhere Volcanoes Appear.- Lessons of Life.- Human Evolution: Retrodictions and Predictions.- Man's Place in Nature: Human and Chimpanzee Behavior are Compared.- Creative Processes in Natural and Artificial Systems (Third Signal System of Man).- Conservation of Life.- Human Alteration of Evolutionary Processes.- The Danger of Ruling Models in a World of Natural Changes and Shifts.- Ecological Limits of the Growth of Civilization.- The Potential of Conversion of Environmental Threats into Socioeconomic Opportunities by Applying an Ecohydrology Paradigm.- Advances in Space Meteorology Modeling and Predicting - the Key Factor of Life Evolution.- Ocean Circulations and Climate Dynamics.- How We Are Far from Bifurcation Point of the Global Warming?.- Mankind Can Strive Against the Global Warming.- Can Advanced Civilization Preserve Biodiversity in Marine Systems?.- Can We Personally Influence the Future with Our Present Resources?.- World Energy Development Prospects.- Energy in the Universe and its Availability to Mankind.- Deuterium Explosion Power.- Accelerating Changes in our Epoch and the Role of Time-Horizons.- Mathematical and Spiritual Models: Scope and Challenges.- Future of our Civilization: Benefits and Perils of Advanced Science and Technology.- Dark Energy and Life's UltimateFuture.- Digital Aspects of Nature and Ultimate Fate of Life.- Spirals of Complexity - Dynamics of Change.- How Can We Improve our Life?.- Nutrition, Immunity and Health.- Human Races and Evolutionary Medicine.- Bacteria in Human Health and Disease: From Commensalism to Pathogenicity.- Is there a Solution to the Cancer Problem?.- Are Embryonic Stem Cells Research and Human Cloning by our Future?.- Defeat of Aging - Utopia or Foreseeable Scientific Reality.- Cardiology in XXI Century.- Cancer Problem in the Eyes of the Skin Multiparameter Electrophysiological Imaging.- Perspective of Quantum Medicine.- There are 6 Million Tons of Brain Matter in the World, Why do We Use it so Unwisely.- Conservation of Biological Diversity.- Dialogue among Civilizations as a New Approach for International Relations.- New Proposals to Conserve Life and Civilization.- What is our Future.- Eco-Ethics Must be the Main Science of the Future.- The Vital Tripod: Science, Religion and Humanism for Sustainable Civilization.- HIV/AIDS and the Future of the Poor, Illiterate and Marginalized Populations.- Ocean Settlements are a Step in the Future.- Futurology: Where is Future going?.- Towards Sustainable Future by Transition to the Next Level Civilization.- The Future of Solar System and Earth from Religious Point of View.- Are We Alone?.- The Life-Time of Technological Civilizations.- Calculating the Number of Habitable Planets in the Milky Way.