Noun

Reproduction at a distance, especially through artificial insemination

*{{quote-journal, 1962, Harold F. Dorn, World Population Growth, Science, volume=135, issue=3500 citation

, passage=At the same time he has learned how to separate sexual gratification from reproduction by means of contraception and telegenesis (that is, reproduction by artificial insemination, particularly with spermatozoa preserved for relatively long periods of time), so that he can regulate population increase by voluntary control of fertility.}}

Noun

(head)

(cybernetics) Autonomous setting of goals

(dated, rare) A regime of controlled, intentional reproduction

* {{quote-book, 1955, Paul Stewart Henshaw, Adaptive Human Fertility, page=257 citation

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(biology, dated, rare) The preferential evolution of features and organs in certain ways

* {{quote-journal, 1930, , The Discovery of Tertiary Man, Science, volume=71, page=1827 citation

, passage=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.}}