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Introduction to biosemiotics : the new biological synthesis
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Introduction to biosemiotics : the new biological synthesis

Author: Marcello Barbieri
Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer, cop. 2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Combining approaches from biology, philosophy and linguistics, Biosemiotics proposes that animals, plants and single cells engage in semiosis: the conversion of objective signals into conventional  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Marcello Barbieri
ISBN: 9781402048135 1402048130 9781402083440 1402083440
OCLC Number: 453100903
Description: XII, 530 str. : ilustr. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Editorial: The challenge of biosemiotics; M. Barbieri.- Part 1: Historical points. 1. The evolutionary history of biosemiotics; D. Favareau.- 2. Semiosis in evolution; T. Jamsa.- 3. Has biosemiotics come of age? -- and Postscript; M. Barbieri.- Part 2: Theoretical issues. 4. The necessity of biosemiotics: matter-symbol complementarity; H. Pattee.- 5. What is the scope of biosemiotics? Information in living systems; S. Salthe.- 6. Semiotic scaffolding of living systems; J. Hoffmeyer.- 7. Biosemiotics and biophysics - the fundamental approaches to the study of life; K. Kull.- 8. Is the cell a semiotic system?; M. Barbieri.- 9. Computing codes versus interpreting life; S. Artmann.- 10. Toward a Darwinian biosemiotics. Life as a mutual understanding; A. MarkoA! et al.- 11. From the logic of science to the logic of the living. The relevance of Charles Peirce to biosemiotics; T. Vehkavaara.- 12. Towards a standard terminology for (bio)semiotics; M. Danesi.- 13. Information theory and error-correcting codes in genetics and biological evolution; G. Battail.- Part 3: Biosemiotic research. 14. RNA as code makers: a biosemiotic view of RNAi and cell immunity; M. Faria.- 15. Cellular semiotics and signal transduction; L.E. Bruni.- 16. Inner representations and signs in animals; S.P. Pain.- 17. A biosemiotic approach to epigenetics: constructivist aspects of oocyte-to-embryo transition; J. Huber, I. Schmid-Tannwald.- 18. Language and interspecific communication experiments: a case to reopen?; D. Martinelli.
Responsibility: edited by Marcello Barbieri.

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