Introduction to Biosemiotics The New Biological Synthesis /

This book is addressed to students, researchers and academics who have barely heard of the emerging young science of Biosemiotics, and who want to know more about it. Written by many of the field’s major contributors, it provides a highly qualified introduction to Biosemiotics and illustrates the mo...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Barbieri, Marcello. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edition:1st ed. 2007.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4814-9
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505 0 |a The Evolutionary History of Biosemiotics -- Semiosis In Evolution -- Has Biosemiotics Come Of Age? And Postscript -- The Necessity Of Biosemiotics: Matter-Symbol Complementarity -- What Is The Scope Of Biosemiotics? Information In Living Systems -- Semiotic Scaffolding Of Living Systems -- Biosemiotics and Biophysics — The Fundamental Approaches to the Study of Life -- Is The Cell A Semiotic System? -- Computing Codes Versus Interpreting Life -- Towards a Darwinian Biosemiotics.Life as Mutual Understanding -- From the Logic of Science to the Logic of the Living -- Towards a Standard Terminology for (Bio)Semiotics -- Information Theory and Error-Correcting Codes In Genetics and Biological Evolution -- RNA As Code Makers: A Biosemiotic View Of RNAi And Cell Immunity -- Cellular Semiotics And Signal Transduction -- Inner Representations and Signs in Animals -- A Biosemiotic Approach To Epigenetics: Constructivist Aspects -- Language And Interspecific Communication Experiments: A Case To Re-Open?. 
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