InhaltsangabeEditorial: The challenge of biosemiotics; M. Barbieri.-

Part 1: Historical points. 1. The evolutionary history of biosemiotics; D. Favareau.- 2. Semiosis in evolution; T. Jämsä.- 3. Has biosemiotics come of age? - and Postscript; M. Barbieri.-

Part 2: Theoretical issues. 4. The necessity of biosemiotics: matter-symbol complementarity; H. Pattee.- 5. What is the scope of biosemiotics? Information in living systems; S. Salthe.- 6. Semiotic scaffolding of living systems; J. Hoffmeyer.- 7. Biosemiotics and biophysics - the fundamental approaches to the study of life; K. Kull.- 8. Is the cell a semiotic system?; M. Barbieri.- 9. Computing codes versus interpreting life; S. Artmann.- 10. Toward a Darwinian biosemiotics. Life as a mutual understanding; A. Markos et al.- 11. From the logic of science to the logic of the living. The relevance of Charles Peirce to biosemiotics; T. Vehkavaara.- 12. Towards a standard terminology for (bio)semiotics; M. Danesi.- 13. Information theory and error-correcting codes in genetics and biological evolution; G. Battail.-

Part 3: Biosemiotic research. 14. RNA as code makers: a biosemiotic view of RNAi and cell immunity; M. Faria.- 15. Cellular semiotics and signal transduction; L.E. Bruni.- 16. Inner representations and signs in animals; S.P. Pain.- 17. A biosemiotic approach to epigenetics: constructivist aspects of oocyte-to-embryo transition; J. Huber, I. Schmid-Tannwald.- 18. Language and interspecific communication experiments: a case to reopen?; D. Martinelli.