ABSTRACT
Adaptation of organisms to the environment is often mentioned in the theory of evolution, but according to the prevailing Neo-Darwinistic vision, no difference is made between inner and outer adaptation. Instead, people have the incomplete view — derived from the sciences such as zoology, biology and genetics — that adaptation is the transmittance or inheritance of selected genetic variations resulting from an organism's contact with the physical environment. Biosemiotics presents a new vista of old problems, such as the relationships between body and soul, between natural science and behavioral science, between object and subject, which are artificially generated by Rene Descartes' dichotomy and looked at for causes that change facts. Biosemiotics investigates the relationship between life and matter, soul and spirit by means of the complimentary application of methods originating from the natural as well as from the behavioral sciences.
