Short Curriculum

Marcello Barbieri

Dipartimento di Morfologia ed Embriologia
Via Fossato di Mortara 64 A
44121 Ferrara
Italy
brr@unife.it

Marcello Barbieri (1940) is retired professor of embryology at the University of Ferrara, Italy.
He has conducted research on embryonic development and ribosome crystallization at the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, UK, the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA, and the Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik in Berlin. He has been the founder and first editor-in-chief of the journal Biosemiotics, and in 2012 he founded the new research field of Code Biology.
His major contribution is the idea that evolution took place by two distinct mechanisms, by natural selection and by natural conventions, and that the great novelties of evolution were associated with the origin of new biological codes.
His major books are:

• Barbieri M (1985) The Semantic Theory of Evolution. Harwood Academic Publishers, London.
  Reissued in 2020 in the Routledge Library Editions.
• Barbieri M (2003) The Organic Codes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
• Barbieri M (2015) Code Biology. A New Science of Life. Springer.
• Barbieri M (2024) Codes and Evolution. The Origin of Absolute Novelties. Springer.