In the Beginning

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 Evolutionary Semantics

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