EAN: 9783319145341

CODE BIOLOGY - MARCELLO BARBIERI GEBUNDEN

This book is the study of all codes of life with the standard methods of science. The genetic
code and the codes of culture have been known for a long time and represent the historical
foundation of this book. What is really new in this field is the study of all codes that came
after the genetic code and before the codes of culture. The existence of these organic codes 
however  is not only a major experimental fact. It is one of those facts that have
extraordinary theoretical implications. The first is that most events of macroevolution were
associated with the origin of new organic codes  and this gives us a completely new
reconstruction of the history of life. The second implication is that codes involve meaning and
we need therefore to introduce in biology not only the concept of information but also the
concept of biological meaning. The third theoretical implication comes from the fact that the
organic codes have been highly conserved in evolution  which means that they arethe greatest
invariants of life. The study of the organic codes  in short  is bringing to light new
mechanisms that have operated in the history of life and new fundamental concepts in biology.

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