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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      23 November 2009
      09 December 2002
      ISBN:
      9780511614019
      9780521824149
      9780521531009
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511614019
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.668kg, 316 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.538kg, 316 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Earth and Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences, Palaeontology and Life History, Evolutionary Biology
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    The genetic code appeared on Earth with the first cells. The codes of cultural evolution arrived almost four billion years later. These are the only codes that are recognized by modern biology. In this book, however, Marcello Barbieri explains that there are many more organic codes in nature, and their appearance not only took place throughout the history of life but marked the major steps of that history. A code establishes a correspondence between two independent 'worlds', and the codemaker is a third party between those 'worlds'. Therefore the cell can be thought of as a trinity of genotype, phenotype and ribotype. The ancestral ribotypes were the agents which gave rise to the first cells. The book goes on to explain how organic codes and organic memories can be used to shed new light on the problems encountered in cell signalling, epigenesis, embryonic development, and the evolution of language.

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    ‘… truly stimulating … clear and succinct, and the content genuinely novel.’

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