Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Arbitrary Rules -- 1.2 The Mechanisms of Evolution -- 1.3 Code Biology -- 1.4 About This Book -- Part I: The History of Code Biology -- Chapter 2: Ribosome Microcrystals -- Appendix: A Gallery of Eukaryotic Ribosome Microcrystals (Plates 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6) -- Chapter 3: Semantic Biology -- 3.1 Aristotle and Embryonic Development -- 3.2 Do We Understand Development? -- 3.3 The Reconstruction Model -- 3.4 Reconstructions with Memories and Codes -- 3.5 The Semantic Theory of Development -- 3.6 A New Model of the Cell -- 3.7 The Ribotype Theory on the Origin of Life -- 3.8 The Conservation Problem -- 3.9 The Semantic Theory of Evolution -- 3.10 A Few Encouraging Comments -- Appendix: Letters from Karl Popper and René Thom -- Chapter 4: The New World of Codes -- 4.1 The First Ten Codes -- 4.2 The Genetic Code -- 4.3 The Metabolic Code -- 4.4 The Hox Codes -- 4.5 The Sequence Codes -- 4.6 The Adhesion Codes -- 4.7 The Histone Code -- 4.8 The Sugar Code -- 4.9 The Signal Transduction Codes -- 4.10 The Cytoskeleton Codes -- 4.11 The Splicing Codes -- 4.12 Hundreds of Biological Codes -- Appendix: Code Biology Database-A List of Biological Codes -- Chapter 5: From Biosemiotics to Code Biology -- 5.1 Signs and Semiosis -- 5.2 The Code Model of Semiosis -- 5.3 The Heritage of Charles Peirce -- 5.4 The Heritage of Thomas Sebeok -- 5.5 A Book Review -- 5.6 A Brief History of Mechanism -- 5.7 What Is Mechanism? -- 5.8 The Brain and the Cell -- 5.9 Life and Hermeneutics -- 5.10 Anticipation at the Cellular Level |