Teleogenesis
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Teleogenesis is a noun meaning (cybernetics) Autonomous setting of goals.
Meaning
(cybernetics) Autonomous setting of goals.
More Meanings
- (biology, dated, rare) The preferential evolution of features and organs in certain ways
- (dated, rare) A regime of controlled, intentional reproduction
Example Sentences
[…] 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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include self-organization, biocybernetics, teleonomy, selforganization, orthogenesis, autopoiesis.
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