Presents the programmatic texts of biosemiotics, written collectively by the world leading scholars in the field (Deacon, Emmeche, Favareau, Hoffmeyer, Kull, MarkoA', Pattee, and Stjernfelt). This book includes chapters on semiotic case studies (Bruni, Kotov, Maran, Neuman, and Turovski).

Why Biosemiotics? An Introduction to Our View on the Biology of Life Itself (K Kull et al.); Biosemiotic Approach: General Principles: Theses on Biosemiotics: Prolegomena to a Theoretical Biology (K Kull et al.); Biology is Immature Biosemiotics (J Hoffmeyer); Biosemiotic Research Questions (K Kull et al.); Organism and Body: The Semiotics of Emergent Levels of Life (C Emmeche); Life is Many, and Sign is Essentially Plural: On the Methodology of Biosemiotics (K Kull); Applications: The Need for Impression in the Semiotics of Animal Freedom (A Turovski); The Multitrophic Plant-Herbivore-Parasitoid-Pathogen System: A Biosemiotic Perspective (L Bruni); Structural and Semiotic Aspects of Biological Mimicry (T Maran); Biosphere and Semiosphere (K Kotov & K Kull); Why do we Need Signs in Biology? (Y Neuman); Conversations: Between Physics and Semiotics (H Pattee & K Kull); A Roundtable on Biosemiotics (C Emmeche et al.); Theories of Signs and Meaning: Views from Copenhagen and Tartu (J Hoffmeyer & K Kull).