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Major Publications in Biosemiotics

Springer Book Series in Biosemiotics

• Introduction to Biosemiotics: The New Biological Synthesis. Barbieri, Marcello (Editor). Berlin: Springer.
• The Codes of Life: The Rules of Macroevolution. Barbieri, Marcello (Editor). Berlin: Springer.
• A Legacy for Living Systems: Gregory Bateson as a Precursor to Biosemiotics. Hoffmeyer, Jesper (Editor). Berlin: Springer.
• Life as Its Own Designer: Darwin's 'Origin' and Western Thought. by Anton Markoš, Filip Grygar, László Hajnal, Karel Kleisner, Zdenek Kratochvíl, and Zdenek Neubauer. Berlin: Springer.
• Essential Readings in Biosemiotics: Anthology and Commentary. Favareau, Donald (Editor). Berlin: Springer.

Other Recently Released Books

• A More Developed Sign: Interpreting the Work of Jesper Hoffmeyer. Favareau, Donald; Cobley, Paul; Kull, Kalevi (eds).Tartu University Press.
• Biosemiotics: Nature/Culture/Science/Semiosis. Wheeler, Wendy (ed). Living Books About Life Online Series.
• Biosemiotics: An Examination into the Signs of Life and the Life of Signs. Hoffmeyer, Jesper. University of Scranton Press.
• Genes, Information and Semiosis. Charbel Niño El-Hani, Joáo Queiroz, Claus Emmeche . Tartu University Press.
• Reviving the Living: Meaning Making in Living Systems. Neuman, Yair. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
• The Whole Creature: Complexity, Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Culture. Wheeler, Wendy J. London: Lawrence & Wishart.
• Cybersemiotics: Why Information is Not Enough. Brier, Soren. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
• Biocommunication and Natural Genome Editing. Witzany, Guenther. Springer, Dordrecht.
• Demonios de Darwin. Semiótica y Termodinámica de la Evolución Biológica. Andrade, Eugenio. Bogota: Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
• The Semiotic Animal. Deely, John; Petrilli, Susan & Ponzio, Augusto Toronto: Legas.

Foundational Readings

• Barbieri, M. 1985. The Semantic Theory of Evolution. London: Harwood Academic Press.
• Barbieri M. 2003. The Organic Codes: An Introduction to Semantic Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Deacon T. 1997. The Symbolic Species. London: Penguin.
• Emmeche C., Kull K., Stjernfelt F. 2002. Reading Hoffmeyer, Rethinking Biology. Tartu: Tartu University Press.
• Hoffmeyer J. 1996. Signs of Meaning in the Universe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Markos, A. 2002. Readers of the Book of Life: Contextualizing Developmental Evolutionary Biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Schult, Joachim (ed.) 2004. Biosemiotik - praktische Anwendung und Konsequenzen fur die Einzelwissenschaften. [Studien zur Theorie der Biologie 6.] Berlin: Verlag Wissenschaft und Bildung.
• Sebeok T.A., Umiker-Sebeok J. (eds.) 1992. Biosemiotics: The Semiotic Web 1991. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Taborsky E. (ed.) 1999. Semiosis, Evolution, Energy: Towards a Reconceptualization of the Sign. Aachen: Shaker Verlag.
• Vijver G. van de, Salthe S.N., Delpos M. (eds.) 1998. Evolutionary Systems: Biological and Epistemological Perspectives on Selection and Self-Organization. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
• Neuman, Yair 2003. Processes and Boundaries of the Mind: Extending the limit line. Kluwer.
• Weber, Andreas 2003. Natur als Bedeutung: Versuch einer semiotischen Theorie des Lebendigen. Warzburg: Knigshausen & Neumann.
• Witzany, Guenther 2000. Life:The Communicative Structure. Norderstedt:Libri.

Journals

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• Cybernetics and Human Knowing
• Sign Systems Studies
• Semiotics, Evolution, Energy and Development Journal
• Cognition, Communication and Co-operation Journal (Triple C)

Special Issues of Journals

• The American Journal of Semiotics 24.1-3. Favareau, D. (ed.) 2008. Special Issue on Biosemiotics.
• Cybernetics and Human Knowing 10(1). 2003. Thomas Sebeok and the biosemiotic legacy.
• Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 901. Chandler J.L.R., Vijver G. van de (eds.) 2000. Closure: Emergent Organizations and their Dynamics.
• Cybernetics and Human Knowing 5(1). 1998. Life: natural selection, self-organization and semiosis.
• Cybernetics and Human Knowing 7(1). 2000. The Embodied Mind and the Baldwin effect.
• European Journal for Semiotic Studies 9(2), 248-376. Laubichler M.D. (ed.) 1997.
• Semiotica 42(1), 1-87. Uexküll T. (ed.) 1982. Jakob von Uexküll's 'The Theory of Meaning'.
• Semiotica 89(4), 277-391. Uexküll T. (ed.) 1992. Jakob von Uexküll's 'A Stroll through the Worlds of Animals and Men'.
• Semiotica 120(3/4), 231-482. 1998. Semiotics in the Biosphere: Reviews and Rejoinder.
• Semiotica 127(1/4), 1-655. Sebeok T.A., Hoffmeyer J., Emmeche C. (eds.) 1999. Biosemiotica.
• Semiotica 134(1/4), 1-828. Kull K. (ed.) 2001. Jakob von Uexk¸ll: A Paradigm for Biology and Semiotics.
• Sign Systems Studies 27, 128-147. 1999 [two articles on biosemiotics].
• Sign Systems Studies 28, 326-420. 2000 [five articles on biosemiotics].
• Sign Systems Studies 29(1), 1-376. N-th W., Kull K. (eds.) 2001 [special issue on semiotics of nature].
• Sign Systems Studies 30(1), 1-386. Emmeche C., Hoffmeyer J., Kull K. (eds.) 2001 [special issue on biosemiotics].
• Studium Generale 3(2/3), 61-135. 1950. [About Uexküll's Umwelt-concept.]
• Zeitschrift für Semiotik 8(3). 1986. Zeichenverhalten der Tiere.
• Zeitschrift für Semiotik 12(4). 1990. Kultur und Evolution.
• Zeitschrift für Semiotik 15(1/2). 1993. Kommunikation zwischen Mensch und Tier.
• Zeitschrift für Semiotik 18(1). 1996. Natur, Umwelt, Zeichen.

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