The Codes of Life : The Rules of Macroevolution /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Barbieri, Marcello. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
Series:Biosemiotics, 1
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.