dysteleology
Meanings
noun
- The view that existence has no telos or final cause from purposeful design.
- The study of apparently functionless rudimentary organs in animals and plants.
- The frustration of natural function, as for example where an insect obtains nectar by puncturing a nectary instead of by the floral opening.
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Etymology
From dys- + teleology.
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