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teleogenesis

noun

Etymology

From teleo- + genesis.

  1. derived from γένεσις
  2. borrowed from genesis
  3. prefixed as teleogenesis — “teleo + genesis”

Definitions

  1. Autonomous setting of goals

  2. A regime of controlled, intentional reproduction

    • […] 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.

  3. The preferential evolution of features and organs in certain ways

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for teleogenesis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA