Mimicry and Meaning: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Maran, Timo (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Σειρά: Biosemiotics, 16
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Systems biology.; Ecology.; Plant science.; Botany.; Animal anatomy.; Semantics.; Life Sciences.; Plant Sciences.; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology.; Systems Biology.

The present book analyses critically the tripartite mimicry model (consisting of the mimic, model and receiver species) and develops semiotic tools for comparative analysis. It is proposed that mimicry has a double structure where sign relations in communication are in constant interplay with ecolog...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1 Biosemiotics of mimicry: introductory notes
• 2 First excursion: the history of the mimicry concept
• 3 The structure of mimicry
• 4 Semiotics of mimicry
• 5 Iconicity and mimicry
• 6 Second excursion: importance of the object
• 7 Different perspectives in mimicry system
• 8 Modelling mimicry.-9 Mimicry and semiotic evolution
• 10 Third excursion: an epistemology of the uncertain
• 11 From abstract mimicry to ecological codes
• 12 Conclusions .