Teleogenetic vs Teleogenesis - What's the difference?
teleogenetic | teleogenesis | Related terms |
(cybernetics) Autonomous setting of goals
(dated, rare) A regime of controlled, intentional reproduction
* {{quote-book, 1955, Paul Stewart Henshaw, Adaptive Human Fertility, page=257
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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
, 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.}}
Teleogenetic is a related term of teleogenesis.
In cybernetics|lang=en terms the difference between teleogenetic and teleogenesis
is that teleogenetic is (cybernetics) setting goals for itself while teleogenesis is (cybernetics) autonomous setting of goals.As an adjective teleogenetic
is (cybernetics) setting goals for itself.As a noun teleogenesis is
(cybernetics) autonomous setting of goals.teleogenesis
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