The Organic Codes

An Introduction to Semantic Biology

Marcello Barbieri

316 pages, parution le 14/03/2003

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Résumé

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.

Contents

The microscope and the cell
Theories of evolution
A new model for biology
Organic codes and organic memories
The origin of life
Prokaryotes and eukaryotes
The Cambrian explosion
Semantic biology
A brief summary
Appendix I. Definitions of life
Afterword Jack Cohen

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	Marcello Barbieri
Parution	14/03/2003
Nb. de pages	316
Format	15 x 22,7
Couverture	Broché
Poids	539g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521531009
ISBN13	978-0-521-53100-9