teleogenesis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

teleogenesis

Etymology

From teleo- + genesis.

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