Morana Alač, Introduction;
Patrizia Violi, In the Beginning: The Voice of God and the Voice of the World. Two Stories about Origins;
Umberto Eco, Origins of Semiosis;
Jürgen Trabant, From Semiogenesis to Gottogenesis in the 18th Century Debate;
Howard Bloch, Etymologies and Genealogies: History,Words, and the World;
Winfried Nöth, Semiogenesis in the Evolution from Nature to Culture;
Thomas Sebeok, Origins: Semiosis the Domain vs. Semiosis the Field;
Maxine Sheets- Jonhstone, On Bacteria, Corporeal Representation, Neanderthals, and Marta Graham: Steps toward an EvolutionarySemantics;
Sherman Wilcox, Hands and Bodies, Minds and Souls: What Can Signed Languages Tell Us about the Origin of Signs?;
Alex Martin, The Neural Basis of Semantic Knowledge;
Philip Lieberman, Subcortical Brain Circuits, Speech and the Evolution of Semeosis.