The Organic Codes: An Introduction to Semantic Biology - Couverture souple

Barbieri, Marcello

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521531004 ISBN 13 : 9780521531009

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2003

Synopsis

The genetic code appeared on Earth with the first cells. The codes of cultural evolution arrived almost four billion years later. These are the only codes that are recognized by modern biology. In this book, however, Marcello Barbieri explains that there are many more organic codes in nature, and their appearance not only took place throughout the history of life but marked the major steps of that history. A code establishes a correspondence between two independent 'worlds', and the codemaker is a third party between those 'worlds'. Therefore the cell can be thought of as a trinity of genotype, phenotype and ribotype. The ancestral ribotypes were the agents which gave rise to the first cells. The book goes on to explain how organic codes and organic memories can be used to shed new light on the problems encountered in cell signalling, epigenesis, embryonic development, and the evolution of language.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Professor Barbieri is based in the Department of Morphology and Embryology at the University of Ferrara, Italy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521531004
• ISBN 13: 9780521531009
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 316
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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