Recent debates surrounding the teaching of biology divide participants into three camps based on how they explain the appearance of the human race: evolution, creationism, or intelligent design. Biosemiotics discovers an intriguing higher ground respecting those opposing theories by arguing that questions of meaning and experiential life can be integrated into the scientific study of nature. This groundbreaking book shows how the linguistic powers of humans imply that consciousness emerges in the evolutionary process and that life is based on sign action, not just molecular interaction. Biosemiotics will be essential reading for anyone interested in the nexus of linguistic possibility and biological reality.
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Figures; Tables, black and white; Illustrations, black and white
Maße
Höhe: 228 mm
Breite: 156 mm
Dicke: 25 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-58966-184-4 (9781589661844)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Jesper Hoffmeyer is professor of molecular biology at the University of Copenhagen.
