The international volume by well-known German, Russian, Finnish, Estonian, American, Austrian and AUstralian scientists on the basic questions of the theory of living systems, including the principles of the semiotic approach to biology.
. Kull, T. Tiivel - Renewal of theoretical biology (7-9)
PRINCIPLES: Erkki Haukioja - What is the basic question in biology? (13-25)
Karl Y.H. Lagerspetz - Bridge principles in biology: reduction and construction in the study of biological systems (26-32)
Alexander Levich - Towards a dynamic theory (on the centenary of E. Bauer) (33-51)
Kalevi Kull - Semiotic paradigm in theoretical biology (52-62)
EVOLUTION: Toomas Tiivel - Is life monophyletic? (65-84)
Werner Schwemmler - Search for a unified theory of evolution: the contribution from symbiosis studies (85-104)
Petter Portin - A dialectical approach to the levels of selection (105-109)
Tõnu Möls - Statistical estimation of molecular phylogenetic trees (110-121)
Toomas Tammaru - Wilhelm Petersen as a biologist-theoretician (122-127)
ECOLOGY: Grenville Hugh Walter - The concept of interaction in ecological theory (131-148)
Thure von Uexküll - Ökologie im Licht der Lehre Jakob von Uexküll's (149-152)
Martin Zobel - Theories concerning the coexistence of plant species (153-168)
ORGANISMS: Wolfgang Friedrich Gutmann - Organismic machines: the hydraulic principle and the evolution of living constructions (171-187)
Jay E. Mittenthal, Lev V. Beloussov - A biomechanical model for gastrulation of Xenopus laevis (189-201)
Lev V. Beloussov - Experimental evidence for the "hyperrestoration rule" and some standard morphomechanical situations (202-216)
CULTURE: Sergei V. Chebanov - Biology and humanitarian culture: the problem of interpretation in bio-hermeneutics and in the hermeneutics of biology (219-248)
Arnold Keyserling - Return of the philosophy of nature (249-251)
