Codes and Evolution

Marcello Barbieri is retired professor of Embryology at the University of Ferrara, Italy. He has conducted research on embryonic development and ribosome crystallization at the Medical Research Council in Cambridge UK, the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda USA, and the Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik in Berlin. He has been the founder and first editor-in-chief of the Springer journal Biosemiotics, a position from which he resigned in order to found the new research field of Code Biology.

• 1 Introduction.- Part 1 The History of Code Biology.- Chapter 2 Ribosome microcrystals.- Chapter 3 Semantic Biology.- Chapter 3 The New World of Codes.- Chapter 5 From Biosemiotics to Code Biology.- Part 2 The Great Events of Macroevolution.- Chapter 6 The Divide between Life and Matter.- Chapter 7 Evolution of the Genetic Code.- Chapter 8 Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes.- Chapter 9 The Cambrian Explosion.- Chapter 10 The Origin of Mind.- Chapter 11 The Origin of Language.- 12 Conclusion.- References.