Teleonomy vs Teleogenesis - What's the difference?
teleonomy | teleogenesis | coordinate terms |
(biology) The quality of living organisms of seeming to be organized towards the attainment of an end
(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.}}
Teleonomy is a coordinate term of teleogenesis.
As nouns the difference between teleonomy and teleogenesis
is that teleonomy is (biology) the quality of living organisms of seeming to be organized towards the attainment of an end while teleogenesis is (cybernetics) autonomous setting of goals.teleonomy
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