The Codes of Life : The Rules of Macroevolution - Barbieri, Marcello; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
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.
Keywords: Evolutionary biology; Biology-Philosophy.; Biochemistry; Coding theory; Information theory; Semantics; Evolutionary Biology; Philosophy of Biology; Biochemistry, general; Coding and Information Theory; Semantics