Mimicry and Meaning: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry

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