@article{Maran_2001, title={Mimicry: Towards a semiotic understanding of nature}, volume={29}, url={https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/sss/article/view/SSS.2001.29.1.20}, DOI={10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.20}, abstractNote={<p>Mimicry has been an important topic for biology since the rise of the Darwinian theory of evolution. However. by its very narure mimicry is a sign process and the quest for understanding mimicry in biology has intrinsically always been a semiotic quest. In this paper various theories since Henry W. Bates will be examined to show how the concept of mimicry has been shifted from perceptual resemblance to a particular communicative structure. A concept of mimicry will then be formulated which emphasizes its dynamic properties, and finally, mimicry will be considered in the framework of ecosemiotics.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Sign Systems Studies}, author={Maran, Timo}, year={2001}, month={Dec.}, pages={325–339} }