This article highlights the potential contribution of biological codes to the course and
dynamics of evolution. The concept of organic codes, developed by Marcello Barbieri, has …

This first Special Issue on Code Biology is an important milestone that lives up to Barbieri's
(2015) description of code biology as “a deeply interdisciplinary field that necessarily …

Various independent discoveries have shown that many organic codes exist in living
systems, and this implies that they came into being during the history of life and contributed …

Abstract Systems Biology and the Modern Synthesis are recent versions of two classical
biological paradigms that are known as structuralism and functionalism, or internalism and …

Major evolutionary transitions as well as the evolution of codes of life are key elements in
macroevolution which are characterized by increase in complexity Major evolutionary …

This third special issue in Code Biology is a collection of highly different papers and their
differences have two main causes. The first, the most obvious, is that Code Biology is the …

For a long time it has been assumed that the rules of the genetic code were determined by
chemistry–either by stereochemical affinities or by metabolic reactions–but the experimental …

A powerful and concise concept of life is crucial for studies aiming to understand the
characteristics that emerged from an inorganic world. Among biologists, the most accepted …

Autonomy, meaning freedom from exogenous control, requires independence of both
constitution and cybernetic regulation. Here, the necessity of biological codes to achieve …

This chapter gives an overview of biological codes based on Marcello Barbieri's concept of
codes as mapping between two independent worlds through an adaptor. Biological codes in …