  We describe a new type of gravity-matter models where gravity couples in a
non-conventional way to two distinct scalar fields providing a unified
Lagrangian action principle description of: (a) the evolution of both "early"
and "late" Universe - by the "inflaton" scalar field; (b) dark energy and dark
matter as a unified manifestation of a single material entity - the "darkon"
scalar field. The essential non-standard feature of our models is employing the
formalism of non-Riemannian space-time volume forms - alternative generally
covariant integration measure densities (volume elements) defined in terms of
auxiliary antisymmetric tensor gauge fields. Although being (almost) pure-gauge
degrees of freedom, the non-Riemannian space-time volume forms trigger a series
of important features unavailable in ordinary gravity-matter models. When
including in addition interactions with the electro-weak model bosonic sector
we obtain a gravity-assisted generation of electro-weak spontaneous gauge
symmetry breaking in the post-inflationary "late" Universe, while the
Higgs-like scalar remains massless in the "early" Universe.
