From reviews for the bestselling Danish                  edition:"... dashing and idiomatic language that is a                  pleasure to read." -- Berlingske Tidende"... an                  appetizer and eye opener... Hoffmeyer is a modernistic pioneer in the wide open                  spaces of the natural sciences... " -- Politiken"...                  extremely well written and interesting manifesto for a bioanthropology... " --                  Inf."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 AvisenOn 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.

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