Codes and Evolution

The Origin of Absolute Novelties

AvMarcello Barbieri

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

This amounts to saying that evolution took place by two distinct mechanisms, by natural selection and by natural conventions, two mechanisms that are fundamentally different because natural selection is the result of copying and deals with information whereas natural conventions are the result of coding and deal with meaning.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-05-11
Mått:155 x 235 x 14 mm
Vikt:376 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Biosemiotics
Antal sidor:231
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031584862

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Marcello Barbieri is retired professor of Embryology at the University of Ferrara, Italy. He has conducted research on embryonic development and ribosome crystallization at the Medical Research Council in Cambridge UK, the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda USA, and the Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik in Berlin. He has been the founder and first editor-in-chief of the Springer journal Biosemiotics, a position from which he resigned in order to found the new research field of Code Biology.

Innehållsförteckning

1 Introduction.- Part 1 The History of Code Biology.- Chapter 2 Ribosome microcrystals.- Chapter 3 Semantic Biology.- Chapter 3 The New World of Codes.- Chapter 5 From Biosemiotics to Code Biology.- Part 2 The Great Events of Macroevolution.- Chapter 6 The Divide between Life and Matter.- Chapter 7 Evolution of the Genetic Code.- Chapter 8 Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes.- Chapter 9 The Cambrian Explosion.- Chapter 10 The Origin of Mind.- Chapter 11 The Origin of Language.- 12 Conclusion.- References.