Is the cell a semiotic system?

Introduction to Biosemiotics: The New Biological Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 179-208

  Barbieri, Marcello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biosemiotics; Information; Meaning; Organic codes; Physicalism; Ribotype; Semiotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919715190     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4814-9_8     Document Type: Chapter

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