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Orthogenesis

Orthogenesis is an obsolete biological hypothesis that organisms have an innate tendency to evolve in a definite direction towards some goal (teleology), due to some internal mechanism or "driving force". According to the theory, the largest-scale trends in evolution have an absolute goal such as increasing biological complexity. Prominent historical…

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related to With Darwin · 45
Orthogenesis → According, Acquired Characteristics According, Albert, And, Baer, Carl Nägeli, Charles Darwin, Darwin, Darwin's, Eimer, Eimer's, Forces, French Revolution, Further, Gould, Gregor Mendel, He, Impotence, In, Inheritance
related to Nineteenth and twentieth centuries · 23
Orthogenesis → Bernard Rensch, Charles, Darwinian, David Starr Jordan, Debate, Du Noüy, For, George Gaylord Simpson, German, He, In, John Merle Coulter, Julian Huxley, Lipman, Ludwig Hermann Plate, Maynard, Metcalf, Numerous, Otto Schindewolf, Sinnott
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Orthogenesis → Agassiz, American, Cope, Cope's, Darwin, Darwinian, Each, Edward Drinker Cope, Finally, For, In, Lamarckian, Lamarckism, Mutationism, Natural, Other, Still, The, This, Vitalism
related to Pre-Darwinian · 13
Orthogenesis → Chambers, Charles Darwin, Creation, Erasmus Darwin, His, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Lamarckism, Natural History, Robert Chambers, The, The French, Those, Vestiges
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Orthogenesis → Ancient Greek, Guyer, In, Michael, The, Theodor Eimer, Wilhelm Haacke
related to In science · 4
Orthogenesis → As, Edward, Larson, The
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Orthogenesis → Adaptive, DevolutionDirected, Directed, EvolutionismEvolution
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Orthogenesis → obsolete biological hypothesis that organisms have an innate tendency to evolve in a definite direction towards some goal

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Orthogenesisis aobsolete biological hypothesis that organisms have an innate tendency to evolve in a definite direction towards some goal0.90text
increasing biological complexityinstance ofthe largest-scale trends in evolution have an absolute goal0.80text
Lamarckism were being proposedinstance ofwith orders of angels reaching up to God at the top.Pre-DarwinianThe orthogenesis hypothesis had a significant following in the 19th century when evolutionary mechanisms0.80text
the evolution of the horse to argue that evolution had proceeded in a regular single direction that was difficult to explain by random variationinstance ofHe used examples0.80text
Maynard Minstance ofbiologists0.80text
those promulgated by Du Noüyinstance ofIn 1964 George Gaylord Simpson argued that orthogenetic theories0.80text
Sinnott were essentially theology rather than biology.Though evolution is not progressiveinstance ofIn 1964 George Gaylord Simpson argued that orthogenetic theories0.80text
it does sometimes proceed in a linear wayinstance ofIn 1964 George Gaylord Simpson argued that orthogenetic theories0.80text
reinforcing characteristics in certain lineagesinstance ofIn 1964 George Gaylord Simpson argued that orthogenetic theories0.80text
but such examples are entirely consistent with the modern neo-Darwinian theory of evolutioninstance ofIn 1964 George Gaylord Simpson argued that orthogenetic theories0.80text
Lamarckism were being proposedinstance ofPre-DarwinianThe orthogenesis hypothesis had a significant following in the 19th century when evolutionary mechanisms0.80text
Fisher providedinstance ofuntil mathematicians0.80text

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