Meaning of teleogenesis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Autonomous setting of goals
   uncountable
2. A regime of controlled, intentional reproduction
   dated, rare, uncountable
3. The preferential evolution of features and organs in certain ways
   dated, rare, uncountable

Examples

“[…] in the same way that appetite has ensured the intake of food, sexual compulsion has ensured the placement of sperm. Under teleogenesis this would no longer be the case.”

“Third, to this hundred per cent. structural equipment of our remote ancestors phylogeny adds a hitherto unperceived germinal potentiality of specialization along certain pre-determined directions rather than others in adaptive reactions to changes of environment; this teleogenesis rests upon thousands of observations among primates, horses, titanotheres and elephants which prove that parallel anatomical and psychical progress is traceable to germinal community of origin.”

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