Usually means: Purposeful design in biological systems.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. teleonomy: Merriam-Webster
  2. teleonomy: Collins English Dictionary
  3. teleonomy: Wiktionary
  4. teleonomy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. teleonomy: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. teleonomy: Dictionary.com
  7. Teleonomy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. teleonomy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Teleonomy: Cybernetics and Systems

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. teleonomy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (teleonomy)

▸ noun:  (evolutionary theory) The quality of living organisms of seeming to be organized towards the attainment of an end.

Similar:
orthogenesis, teleogenesis, bioevolution, organonomy, evolutionism, metaevolution, evolutionary theory, telotaxis, telosomics, self-evolution, more...

Opposite:
teleology, purposefulness, goal-directedness

Types:
self-organization, emergent property, complexity, more...

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Similar:
orthogenesis, teleogenesis, bioevolution, organonomy, evolutionism, metaevolution, evolutionary theory, telotaxis, telosomics, self-evolution, more...

Opposite:
teleology, purposefulness, goal-directedness

Types:
self-organization, emergent property, complexity, more...



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