Abir U. Igamberdiev, PhD – Professor, Department of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada

Series: Origin, Evolution and Geological History of the Earth; Insights into Biological and Cultural Evolution
BISAC: SCI100000; SCI027000; SCI031000
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52305/WDZU5148

“The book presents a captivating journey into the geological history of Earth from a particular geographical location that gave its name to the age of the Carboniferous period. The author not only describes in detail the specific characteristics of the Kasimovian age, including the features of flora and fauna, climate, oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere. He also shows how the events of that distant time (303-307 million years ago) determined the future development of the biosphere, established the conditions for the growth of particular plants on the Carboniferous limestone, and even determined the appearance of the first Neolithic settlements. The reading invites you, with a look at the past, to appreciate the Earth’s history as a continuous process of the biosphere evolution, further transformed by the origin of man and civilization in the search for harmony between man and nature. The author also traces how his own development as a natural scientist was influenced by the events that took place millions of years ago, which provides a unique personal story of life in the context of the geological history of Earth.” – Dr. Sergey Petoukhov, Head, Laboratory of Studying Biomechanical Systems, Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Professor, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia

“Abir U. Igamberdiev, as Editor-in-Chief of the journal BioSystems, has chosen a career from which he has the opportunity to take in a wide range of aspects of fundamental biology and comment on them from his wide perspective. He has a particular interest in the history of ideas, especially in Russia. There are bright people everywhere, but language differences have kept them isolated. In The Kasimovian Age: Bridging the Past to the Present he has taken the unusual approach of discussing the prehistory and history of the region of Russia that he grew up in and in an unusual way bring it to life for the rest of us. Thus, one unique way of turning a boy into a scientist is revealed to us. My “world” was an empty lot in north Chicago. His perspective is much wider.” – Professor Richard Gordon, Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory & Aquarium, Panacea, FL, USA; Retired Professor, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada 

The Kasimovian Age of The Carboniferous Period: Bridging the Past to the Present reconstructs the natural history of the Earth as well as the history of the development of human civilization using the example of the Oka River banks, where the author spent his childhood and where he developed an interest in the study of natural science.

You can travel in space to learn about the world and travel in time, being at one point in space. Without leaving Königsberg, Immanuel Kant created one of the greatest philosophical systems. The author’s task is much more modest: in eleven chapters, the author traces the history of the Earth, starting from its origin, from a single point of reference. Without expanding space, readers can better understand the flow of time. The objective astronomical and geological time represents a synthesis of the individual times of the organisms that inhabited the planet and collectively created its unique history.

With the advent of man, this temporal flow is intensified, the dynamic processes are increased, and a new, unique world of the noosphere is formed by integrating what has been accumulated over hundreds of millions of years of biosphere evolution, in which human consciousness became the engine of global processes. Developing the optimal and non-destructive trajectories of this movement is the primary task of civilization, and our knowledge of the natural history of the native land is the first important step toward its implementation.

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