The Organic Codes
An Introduction to Semantic Biology
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 23 December 2002
- ISBN 9780521531009
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages316 pages
- Size 229x152x17 mm
- Weight 430 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 47 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
Marcello Barbieri presents new theories on the origins of life, and embryonic development.
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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.
'It looked so intriguing that I started reading it on the way home. Luckily for me, the bus was late... It is really fascinating.' Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Table of Contents:
Foreword Michael Ghiselin; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The microscope and the cell; 2. Theories of evolution; 3. A new model for biology; 4. Organic codes and organic memories; 5. The origin of life; 6. Prokaryotes and eukaryotes; 7. The Cambrian explosion; 8. Semantic biology; 9. A brief summary; Appendix I. Definitions of life; Afterword Jack Cohen; Bibliography; Index.
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