Marcello Barbieri (born 1940) is an Italian theoretical biologist at the University of Ferrara whose main interest is the origin of novelties in macroevolution. He has been one of founders and first editor-in-chief of the journal ''Biosemiotics'' until 2012; currently, he is an editor of the journal ''BioSystems''. His research field is code biology, the study of all codes of life from the genetic code to the codes of culture. His major books are ''The Semantic Theory of Evolution'' (1985), ''The Organic Codes'' (2003), and ''Code Biology. A New Science of Life'' (2015).
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