The Codes of Life The Rules of Macroevolution /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Barbieri, Marcello (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Hoffmeyer, Jesper (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Σειρά: Biosemiotics, 1
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Biology > Philosophy.; Coding theory.; Biochemistry.; Evolutionary biology.; Semantics.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Philosophy of Biology.; Biochemistry, general.; Coding and Information Theory.

Building on a range of disciplines – from biology and anthropology to philosophy and linguistics – this book draws on the expertise of leading names in the study of organic, mental and cultural codes brought together by the emerging discipline of biosemiotics. The book’s 18 chapters present a range...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Codes and Evolution
• Codes of Biosequences
• The Mechanisms of Evolution: Natural Selection and Natural Conventions
• The Genetic Code
• Catalytic Propensity of Amino Acids and the Origins of the Genetic Code and Proteins
• Why the Genetic Code Originated: Implications for the Origin of Protein Synthesis
• Self-Referential Formation of the Genetic System
• The Mathematical Structure of the Genetic Code
• The Arithmetical Origin of the Genetic Code
• Protein, Lipid, and Sugar Codes
• Protein Linguistics and the Modular Code of the Cytoskeleton
• A Lipid-based Code in Nuclear Signalling
• Biological Information Transfer Beyond the Genetic Code: The Sugar Code
• The Immune Self Code: From Correspondence to Complexity
• Signal Transduction Codes and Cell Fate
• Neural, Mental, and Cultural Codes
• Towards an Understanding of Language Origins
• The Codes of Language: Turtles All the Way Up?
• Code and Context in Gene Expression, Cognition, and Consciousness
• Neural Coding in the Neuroheuristic Perspective
• Error Detection and Correction Codes
• The Musical Code between Nature and Nurture: Ecosemiotic and Neurobiological Claims.