Introduction

an evolutionary history of biosemiotics

1-77

The theory of meaning

81-114

The logic of signs

115-148

Excerpts from signs, language and behavior

149-189

Excerpts from universe of the mind

a semiotic theory of culture

191-214

Biosemiotics

its roots, proliferation and prospects

217-236

The clever Hans phenomenon from an animal psychologist's point of view

237-255

Phytosemiotics

257-277

Endosemiosis

279-321

Signs and codes in immunology

323-335

From animal to man

thought and language

337-376

A semiotic perspective on the sciences

steps toward a new paradigm

377-413

Theoretical biology on its way to biosemiotics

417-443

Laws of symbolic mediation in the dynamics of self and personality

445-462

Concepts of molecular biosemiotics

463-500

Form, substance and difference

501-518

The physics and metaphysics of biosemiotics

519-540

Excerpts from the symbolic species

541-580

The semiotics of nature

code-duality

John Coletta

583-628

Information and semiosis in living systems

a semiotic approach

629-656

Excerpts from readers of the book of life

657-696

The cybersemiotic model of communication

an evolutionary view on the threshold between semiosis and informational exchange

697-729

Excerpts from the logos of the bios

731-749

Biosemiotics

a new understanding of life

751-795