Noun

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(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.}}

Noun

(geology) The process of erosion and oxidation that occurs when sedimentary rocks undergo uplift

*{{quote-journal, 1983, J. Kantorowicz, The nature, origin and distribution of authigenic clay minerals from Middle Jurassic Ravescar and Brent Group sandstones, Clay Minerals (1984), issue=19, page=373 citation

, passage=Telogenesis may result from regression, unroofing and the introduction of surface waters or complete exposure and weathering.}}

(medicine, anatomy) The final growth state of a hair or feather follicle

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