Towards a Semiotic Biology : Life Is the Action of Signs, Hardcover by Emmech...

Towards a Semiotic Biology : Life Is the Action of Signs, Hardcover by Emmeche, Claus (EDT); Kull, Kalevi (EDT), ISBN 1848166877, ISBN-13 9781848166875, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UKBiologists who have been led to a semiotic view argue that life processes themselves, by their very nature, are meaning-making informational processes and thus can be fruitfully understood within a semiotic perspective. These 14 essays were written collectively or under a mutual influence, and selected from presentations at seminars and meetings in Copenhagen, Tartu, and other corners of the world. Some of them are revised from previous publication. Among the topics are biology is immature biosemiotics, the semiotics of emergent levels of life, a biosemiotic perspective on the multitrophic plant-herbivore-parasitoid-pathogen system, semiosphere is the relational biosphere, and a roundtable on (mis)understanding of biosemiotics. Distributed in the US by World Scientific. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()