"Commentary bibliography and further readings": p. 797-871
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : an evolutionary history of biosemiotics / Donald Favareau -- pt. I. Sebeok's precursors and influences. The theory of meaning / Jakob von Uexküll -- The logic of signs / Charles Sanders Peirce -- Excerpts from Signs, language and behavior / Charles Morris -- Excerpts from Universe of the mind : a semiotic theory of culture / Juri Mikhajlovič Lotman -- pt. II. The biosemiotic project of Thomas A. Sebeok. Biosemiotics : its roots, proliferation and prospects / Thomas A. Sebeok -- The Clever Hans phenomenon from an animal psychologist's point of view / Heini K.P. Hediger -- Phytosemiotics / Martin Krampen -- Endosemiosis / Thure von Uexküll, Werner Geigges, and Jörg Herrmann -- Signs and codes in immunology / Giorgio Prodi -- From animal to man : thought and language / René Thom -- A semiotic perspective on the sciences : steps toward a new paradigm / Myrdene Anderson ... [et al.] -- pt. III. Independent approaches to biosemiotics. Theoretical biology on its way to biosemiotics / Kalevi Kull -- Laws of symbolic mediation in the dynamics of self and personality / Friedrich S. Rothschild -- Concepts of molecular biosemiotics / Marcel Florkin -- Form, substance and difference / Gregory Bateson -- The physics and metaphysics of biosemiotics / Howard H. Pattee -- Excerpts from The symbolic species / Terrence Deacon -- pt. IV. The contemporary interdiscipline of biosemiotics. The semiotics of nature : code-duality / Jesper Hoffmeyer -- Information and semiosis in living systems : a semiotic approach / Claus Emmeche, João Queiroz, and Charbel El-Hani -- Excerpts from Readers of the book of life / Anton Markoš -- The cybersemiotic model of communication : an evolutionary view on the threshold between semiosis and informational exchange / Søren Brier -- Excerpts from The logos of the bios / Günther Witzany -- Biosemiotics : a new understanding of life / Marcello Barbieri