Table of Contents

General Introduction (Richard Gordon & Joseph Seckbach); Preface. Who is Who in Biocommunication (Joseph Seckbach & Richard Gordon); Foreword. Biocommunication in the Web of Life: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches (Ille C Gebeshuber); Dedication to the Memory of Eshel Ben-Jacob (1952-2015) (Alin Finkelshtein); Theoretical Approaches: Molecular Biocommunication (Alexei A Sharov); Key Levels of Biocommunication, with an Appendix: History of Biocommunications (Guenther Witzany); Typologies of Signs and Signification: The Elements of Continuity Between Humans and Other Animals (Darlo Martinelli); Communication as an Artificial Process (Massimo Negrotti); Cybernetic Embryo (Richard Gordon & Robert Stone); Superfast Evolution via Trans- and Interspecies Bio-Communication (Ille C Gebeshuber & Mark O Macqueen); Channel Capacity and Rate Distortion in Amino Acid Networks (Boaz Tamir & Avner Priel); Communication Languages and Agents in Biological Systems (Subhash Kak); Experimental Approaches: Chemical Communication (Ally R Harari & Rakefet Sharon); Paenibacillus Vortex Guide to the Wisdom of the Crowd (Alin Finkelshtein, Alexandra Sirota-Madi, Dalit Roth, Colin J Ingham & Eshel Ben-Jacob); The Crosstalk Between Plants and Their Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbionts: A Mycocentric View (Cristiana Sbrana, Alessandra Turrini & Manuela Giovannetti); Attraction of Preferred Prey by Carnivorous Plants (Douglas William Darnowski); Animal Communication: Competition for Acoustic Space in Birds and Fish (Hans Slabbekoorn); The Contribution of the Bio-Communication (BICO) to Biomedical and Tissue Engineering: A Tech Mining Study (Angela Machado Rocha, Fernando M Palop, Maria Clara Melro & Marcelo Santana Silva); The Molecular Communication Mechanism of Neuron Survival and Synapse (Noga Gershoni-Emek, Eitan Erez Zahavi, Shani Gluska, Yulia Slobodskoy & Eran Perlson); Ethical Methods of Investigation with Pan/Homo Bonobos and Chimpanzees (E Sue Rumbaugh, Itai Roffman, Elizabeth Pugh & Duane M Rumbaugh); Conversing with Dolphins: The Holy Grail of Interspecies Communication? (Toni Frohoff & Elizabeth Oriel);