Semiosis in evolution

Introduction to Biosemiotics: The New Biological Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 69-100

  Jämsä, Tuomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Epistemic ontic cuts; Semiosis; Semiotic closure; Semiotic model of nature

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919723219     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4814-9_2     Document Type: Chapter

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