Mimicry and Meaning: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

1 BIOSEMIOTICS OF MIMICRY: INTRODUCTORY NOTES 1.1 On a biosemiotic approach 1.2 Defining biological mimicry 2 FIRST EXCURSION: THE HISTORY OF THE MIMICRY CONCEPT 3 THE STRUCTURE OF MIMICRY 3.1 Mimicry types 3.2 Mimicry in relation to other adaptations 3.3 Typologies of mimicry 3.4 Mimicry systems-Wolfgang Wickler's account 3.5 Critical discussion of the triadic mimicry model 4 SEMIOTICS OF MIMICRY 4.1 Semiotic interpretations of mimicry 4.2 Mimicry as a communicative interaction 4.3 Mimicry as a sign system 4.4 The Umwelten of the receiver and the human observer 5 ICONICITY AND MIMICRY 5.1 If mimic is a sign then what does it stands for? 5.2 Peirce's second trichotomy and animal communication 5.3 Peircean categories and the three basic mimicry types 6 SECOND EXCURSION: IMPORTANCE OF THE OBJECT 7 DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES IN MIMICRY SYSTEM 7.1 Mimic's activity and intentionality 7.2 Resembling the environment and becoming a sign 7.3 The receiver's perspective and ambivalent signs 8 MODELLING MIMICRY 8.1 Toolbox for modelling mimicry 8.2 Applying semiotic modelling to brood parasitism 8.3 Towards comparative modelling 9 MIMICRY AND SEMIOTIC EVOLUTION 9.1 Semiotic selection: Definition and examples 9.2 Mimicry and semiotic scaffolding 9.3 Evolution of mimicry in the bio-semiosphere 10 THIRD EXCURSION: AN EPISTEMOLOGY OF THE UNCERTAIN 11 FROM ABSTRACT MIMICRY TO ECOLOGICAL CODES 11.1 Abstract mimicry: When the meaning comes first 11.2 Connecting Umwelten, sharing codes 11.3 Ecological codes and archetypal structures 12 CONCLUSIONS