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Mimicry and Meaning: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry

Biosemiotics of Mimicry: Introductory Notes On a Biosemiotic Approach Defining Biological Mimicry First Excursion: The History of the Mimicry Concept The Structure of Mimicry Mimicry Types Mimicry in Relation to Other Adaptations Typologies of Mimicry Mimicry Systems—Wolfgang Wickler’s Account Critical Discussion of the Triadic Mimicry Model Semiotics of Mimicry Semiotic Interpretations of Mimicry1 Mimicry as a Communicative Interaction Mimicry as a Sign System The Umwelten of the Receiver and the Human Observer Iconicity and Mimicry If Mimic Is a Sign Then What Does It Stands For? Peirce’s Second Trichotomy and Animal Communication Peircean Categories and the Three Basic Mimicry Types Second Excursion: Importance of the Object Different Perspectives in Mimicry System Mimic’s Activity and Intentionality Resembling the Environment and Becoming a Sign The Receiver’s Perspective and Ambivalent Signs Modelling Mimicry Toolbox for Modelling Mimicry Applying Semiotic Modelling to Brood Parasitism What is the formal structure of the mimicry system?What are the perceptual and effectual correspondences between the participants of mimicry?What are the characteristics of resemblances?What is the communicative function in mimicry and how is mimicry regulated in ontogenetic and evolutionary processes?How is the mimicry system related to human cultural processes?Towards Comparative Modelling Mimicry and Semiotic Evolution Semiotic Selection: Definition and Examples Mimicry and Semiotic Scaffolding Evolution of Mimicry in the Bio-semiosphere Third Excursion: An Epistemology of the Uncertain From Abstract Mimicry to Ecological Codes Abstract Mimicry: When the Meaning Comes First Connecting Umwelten, Sharing Codes Ecological Codes and Archetypal Structures

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Defining Biological Mimicry
The common everyday understanding of a concept or phenomenon can often be found in dictionaries or textbooks. For heuristic reasons, I will start by introducing mimicry with these general sources. After that, I will point out the limits and inconsistencies of everyday definitions, and will dig deeper...
(Mimicry and Meaning: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry)
The Structure of Mimicry
A property that makes mimicry both fascinating and difficult to comprehend is its diversity. Mimetic resemblances can occur as colours and forms in the visual medium, as imitations of hissing, buzzing and other sounds, or as similarities of chemical components in pheromones. Mimicry can be based on different...
(Mimicry and Meaning: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry)
Semiotics of Mimicry
Biological mimicry is often described as a deceptive resemblance of some physical traits between representatives of different species. In such cases, attention predominantly stays at the physiological level and focuses on the evolution of mimetic features. In mimicry studies, much less consideration...
(Mimicry and Meaning: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry)
What is the formal structure of the mimicry system?
Compared to the ecological variety of brood parasitism, its descriptions in mimicry studies remain rather sketchy and superficial. In general overviews and typologies of mimicry, attention is usually focused on resemblance and deception, species combination and cost-benefit relations of the participants....
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Mimicry and Semiotic Evolution
Mimicry has historically been used as one of the main arguments for supporting Darwin’s theory of evolution. This was the original emphasis of Henry W. Bates when he wrote: “I believe the case offers a most beautiful proof of the truth of the theory of natural selection” (Bates 1862: 513). The...
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Mimicry and Semiotic Scaffolding
In the subchapter on semiotic selection, the effect of the receiver on the properties of the mimic due to the receiver’s Umwelt structure and subsequent action was described, but there is also another essentially semiotic process active in mimicry evolution. Namely, how an organism in a mimicry system...
(Mimicry and Meaning: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry)
STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY OF LRRK2
The human LRRK2 gene consists of 51 coding exons and encodes a large 2527 amino acid multidomain protein including an N-terminal armadillo domain, an ankyrin-like (ANK) domain, several leucine-rich repeats (LRR), a Ras-like GTPase domain (ROC) along with its C-terminal domain (COR), a MAP kinase domain...
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Semiotics, linguistic structures and pragmatics
Websites as semiotic ensembles The way in which web content is presented on computer screens today is essentially the result of trial and error since the emergence of the world-wide web and the emulation of best practice (or influential bodies). This process has been constantly dependent on software...
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Chemical Structural Features Determine Biological Effects
underlying theory: there is a connection between a chemical structure and its interaction with biological systems. Students learn the sources of information and the different identification systems and apply this in an environmental assessment. 13.4.3.1.1 Case Study Example 1. • Start with these compounds:...
(Computational systems pharmacology and toxicology)
Structure of Additive Problems
To help students make sense of additive inverse relations, a teacher must also understand typical structures of additive problems. Table 2.1 is taken from the Common Core State Standards (NGAC & CCSSO, 2010) and summarizes the common structures of additive problems. As seen from Table 2.1, each row contains...
(Teaching Early Algebra through Example-Based Problem Solving: Insights from Chinese and U.S. Elementary Classrooms)