Signs of Meaning in the Universe

<p>From reviews for the bestselling Danish edition: <br /><br /> . . . dashing and idiomatic language that is a pleasure to read. --Berlingske Tidende<br /><br /> . . . an appetizer and eye opener . . . Hoffmeyer is a modernistic pioneer in the wide open spaces of the natural sciences . . . --Politiken<br /><br /> . . . extremely well written and interesting manifesto for a bioanthropology . . . --Inf.<br /><br />It should be read by anyone who likes to be wiser and at the same time to be challenged in his habitual conception of the relations between culture and nature. --Weekend Avisen<br /><br />On this tour of the universe of signs Jesper Hoffmeyer travels back to the Big Bang visits the tiniest places deep within cells and ends his journey with us--complex organisms capable of speech and reason. What propels this journey is Hoffmeyer's attempt to discover how nature could come to mean something to someone--by telling the story of how cells tissue organs plants animals even entire ecosystems communicate by signs and signals.</p>