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Archaeological approaches to RNA virus evolution
Abstract figure legend Molecular tools and concepts from phylosophy of language and archaeology for the search of ancient RNA elements in the current cell. Abstract Studies with RNA enzymes (ribozymes) and protein enzymes have identified certain structural elements that are present in some cellular mRNAs and viral RNAs.
Ascensión Ariza‐Mateos +5 more
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Gatherings in Biosemiotics 24: Bloemfontein, South Africa 2024
Gatherings in Biosemiotics 24: Bloemfontein, South Africa ...
Xany Jansen Van Vuuren, Kobus Marais
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Everything seems so settled here: The conceivability of post-Peircean biosemiotics
Theory change is a slow, tortuous process. Problems associated with how we communicate ideas and how these ideas are received by our peers become catalysts for change in how we ourselves perceive and sanction what the discipline is capable of doing. Some
Claudio J. Rodríguez Higuera
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Neighbourhoodies: courageous community, colours, blazing bling and defiant delight [PDF]
As we see a global culture appear across the planet identity politics simultaneously gravitate towards issues of the local. In society’s top strata people strive to live in posh areas with the right postal code. Subversive counterculture activists try to
von Busch, Otto
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From cause and effect to causes and effects
Abstract It is now—at least loosely—acknowledged that most health and clinical outcomes are influenced by different interacting causes. Surprisingly, medical research studies are nearly universally designed to study—usually in a binary way—the effect of a single cause.
Joachim P. Sturmberg, James A. Marcum
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On the Fundamentality of Meaning [PDF]
The mainstream view of meaning is that it is emergent, not fundamental, but some have disputed this, asserting that there is a more fundamental level of reality than that addressed by current physical theories, and that matter and meaning are in some way
Josephson, Brian D.
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Telomeres in Evolution and Development from Biosemiotic Perspective [PDF]
Telomeres identify natural chromosome ends being different from broken DNA through differences in their "molecular syntax" (M.Eigen) which determines the functions of reverse transcriptase and its integrated RNA template, telomerase.
Guenther Witzany
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Abstract This is a review of the recently published collective monograph Approaches to Biosemiotics by Rodríguez and Coca (eds.). The publication can be used as a window into the current trends in the research area of biosemiotics, especially in the connection with the social sciences.
Barbora Jurková +2 more
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From the Logic of Science to the Logic of the Living [PDF]
Biosemiotics belongs to a class of approaches that provide mental models of life since it applies some semiotic concepts in the explanation of natural phenomena. Such approaches are typically open to anthropomorphic errors.
Vehkavaara, Tommi
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The Runaway Sign: Semiotic Adaptation in Literary Analysis
This article derives a notion of adaptation as a semiotic process from the work of Jesper Hoffmeyer and the Copenhagen-Tartu school of biosemiotics, suggesting it as way of considering fictional writing on genetics and evolution both empirically and ...
Lara Choksey
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