期刊名称：BIOSEMIOTICS ISSN： 1875-1342 出版频率： Tri-annual 出版社： SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS, 3311 GZ   出版社网址： http://link.springer.com/ 期刊网址： http://link.springer.com/journal/12304 影响因子： 0.711 主题范畴： HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 变更情况： 期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    编辑部信息(Editorial Board)    About the journal     Biosemiotics is dedicated to building a bridge between biology, philosophy, linguistics and the communication sciences. If it is true that biosemiotics is "the study of signs, of communication and of information in living organisms" (Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1997, p.72), it is also true that, in time, it has acquired a more general scope. Today, its main challenge is the attempt to naturalize not only biological information but also biological meaning, in the belief that signs and codes are fundamental components of the living world. This implies that the history of life has largely been shaped by the appearance of new codes, from the genetic code that marked its origin to the codes of language that made us human. Biosemiotics has become in this way the leading edge of the research on the fundamentals of life, and is a young exciting field on the move. By providing both a place for – and access to – exceptional peer-reviewed papers on the emerging discipline of biosemiotics, the journal will offer an instrument of its development by publishing papers in all relevant areas of the sciences and the humanities.   Editor-in-Chief: Marcello Barbieri ISSN: 1875-1342 (print version) ISSN: 1875-1350 (electronic version)   Instructions to Authors Manuscript Submission Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation. 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Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief: Marcello Barbieri Department of Morphology & Embryology, University of Ferrara, Via Fossato di Mortara 64a, 44121 Ferrara, Italy Advisory Board: Myrdene Anderson, Department of Anthropology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA;  Søren Brier, Department of International Culture and Communication Studies, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark; Han-liang Chang, Department & Graduate Institute of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University, Tapei, Taiwan; Sergei V. Chebanov, Baltic State Technical University, St. Petersburg, Russia; John Collier, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa; Marcel Danesi, Program in Semiotics and Communication Theory, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont, Canada; Terrence Deacon, Department of Anthropology & Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, USA; John Deely, Rudman Chair in Graduate Philosophy, University of St Thomas, Houston, TX, USA;  Charbel Niño El-Hani, Instituto de Biologia, Depto. de Biologia Geral, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Bahia, Brazil; Claus Emmeche, Center for the Philosophy of Nature and Science Studies, The Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark;  Donald F. Favareau, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Peter Harries-Jones, Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, York University, Toronto, Ont, Canada;  Jesper Hoffmeyer, Biological Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Kalevi Kull, Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia;  Howard Hunt Pattee, University of Binghamton at New York, NY, USA; Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi, Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland;  Stanley N. Salthe, Biological Sciences, Binghamton University, Natural Systems, New York, NY, USA;  Alexei Sharov, Laboratory of Genetics, National Institute on Aging (NIA/NIH), Baltimore, MD, USA;  Günther Witzany, Telos - Philosophische Praxis, Buermoos, Austria Editorial Board: Natalia A. Abieva, Foreign Languages Department, Herzen State Pedogogical University, St-Petersburg, Russia; Victoria Alexander, Dactyl Foundation for the Arts & Humanities, New York, NY, USA; Argyris Arnellos, Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, University of the Aegean, Ermoupolis, Syros, Greece; Stefan Artmann, Frege Centre for Structural Sciences and Institute of Philosophy, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany; Prisca S. Augustyn, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA; Gérard Battail, «la Chanatte», le Guimand, Chabeuil, France;  Luis Emilio Bruni, Department for Media Technology and Engineering Science, Aalborg University, Ballerup, Denmark;  Paul Cobley, London Metropolitan University; London, UK;  Stephen J. Cowley, School of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, UK;  Joachim De Beule, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium; Peter Dittrich, Jena Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Jena, Germany; Almo Farina, Department of Basic Sciences and Fundaments, The University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy;  Franco Giorgi, Faculty of Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Louis J. Goldberg, Ontology Research Group, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA; Dennis Görlich, University of Münster, Germany; Jan-Hendrik Hofmeyr, Centre for Studies in Complexity and Department of Biochemistry, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa; Karel Kleisner, Department of Philosophy and History Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic; João Carlos Major, Department of Psychology, Portuguese Catholic University, Braga, Portugal; Anton Markos, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Charles University, Praag, Czech Republic; Dario Martinelli, Semiotics and Musicology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Gerald Ostdiek, Department of Philosophy, Charles University Prague, Prague, Czech Republic; Liz Stillwaggon Swan; Center for the Humanities, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA; Morten Tønnessen, Department of Health Studies, University of Stavanger, Norway;  Peter Wills, Department of Physics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; Andrew M. Winters, Department of Philosophy, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA;