Introduction: An Evolutionary History of Biosemiotics. - Introduction: An Evolutionary History of Biosemiotics. - Sebeok's Precursors and Influences. - The Theory of Meaning. - The Logic of Signs. - Excerpts from Signs Language and Behavior. - Excerpts from Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture. - The Biosemiotic Project of Thomas A. Sebeok. - Biosemiotics: Its Roots Proliferation and Prospects. - The Clever Hans Phenomenon from an Animal Psychologist's Point of View. - Phytosemiotics. - Endosemiosis. - Signs and Codes in Immunology. - From Animal to Man: Thought and Language. - A Semiotic Perspective on the Sciences: Steps Toward a New Paradigm. - Independent Approaches to Biosemiotics. - Theoretical Biology on Its Way to Biosemiotics. - Laws of Symbolic Mediation in the Dynamics of Self and Personality. - Concepts of Molecular Biosemiotics. - Form Substance and Difference. - The Physics and Metaphysics of Biosemiotics. - Excerpts from The Symbolic Species. - The Contemporary Interdiscipline of Biosemiotics. - The Semiotics of Nature: Code-Duality. - Information and Semiosis in Living Systems: A Semiotic Approach. - Excerpts from Readers of the Book of Life. - The Cybersemiotic Model of Communication: An Evolutionary View on the Threshold between Semiosis and Informational Exchange. - Excerpts from The Logos of the Bios. - Biosemiotics: A New Understanding of Life. Language: English