The codes of life
Subtitle: the rules of macroevolution
By: edited by Marcello Barbieri.
Contributors: Barbieri, Marcello.
Series: Biosemiotics -- v. 1
Publisher: Springer Science + Business Media; Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [New York, N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9781402063398
Subjects: Macroevolution.; Biology -- Semiotics.; Genetic code.; Coding theory.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Codes of biosequences / Edward N. Trifonov; title: The mechanisms of evolution : natural selection and natural conventions / Marcello Barbieri; title: Catalytic propensity of amino acids and the origins of the genetic code and proteins / Ádám Kun ... [et al.]; title: Why the genetic code originated : implications for the origin of protein synthesis / Massimo Di Giulio; title: Self-referential formation of the genetic system / Romeu Cardoso Guimarães, Carlos Henrique Costa Moreira, and Sávio Torres de Farias; title: The mathematical structure of the genetic code / Diego L. Gonzalez; title: The arithmetical origin of the genetic code / Vladimir shCherbak; title: Protein linguistics and the modular code of the cytoskeleton / Mario Gimona; title: A lipid-based code in nuclear signaling / Nadir M. Maraldi; title: Biological information transfer beyond the genetic code : the sugar code / Hans-Joachim Gabius; title: The immune self code : from correspondence to complexity / Yair Neuman; title: Signal transduction codes and cell fate / Marcella Faria; title: Towards an understanding of language origins / Eörs Szathmáry; title: The codes of language : turtles all the way up? / Stephen J. Cowley; title: Code and context in gene expression, cognition, and consciousness / Seán Ó Nualláin; title: Neural coding in the neuroheuristic perspective / Alessandro E.P. Villa; title: Error detection and correction codes / Diego L. Gonzalez; title: The musical code between nature and nurture : ecosemiotic and neurobiological claims / Mark Reybrouck.