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Information, 2010 All new developments in biology deal with the issue of the complexity of organisms, often pointing out the necessity to update our current understanding.
Gennaro Auletta
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Translation as a Factor of Social Teleonomy [PDF]
TTR, 2012 This article considers translation as a factor in the genesis of social macro-formations—ethnoses and superethnoses. The research combines Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory, Lem Gumilev’s theory of ethnogenesis and the concept of teleonomy borrowed from evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr in order to demonstrate the ethnogenetic
Tyulenev, Sergey, Sergey Tyulenev
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Teleology and Teleonomy in Behavior Analysis [PDF]
The Behavior Analyst, 1994 Teleological descriptions and explanations refer to purpose as consequent to a phenomenon. They become nonteleological if purpose is represented as antecedent to the phenomenon. Such nonteleological statements are called teleonomic, especially when they refer to antecedent genetic "programs." In behavior analysis, purpose is attributed to the organism ...
Hayne W. Reese
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Teleonomy as a problem of self-causation
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2022 AbstractA theoretical framework is provided to explore teleonomy as a problem of self-causation, distinct from upward, downward and reticulate causation. Causality theories in biology are often formulated within hierarchy theories, where causation is conceptualized as running up or down the rungs of a ladder-like hierarchy or, more recently, as moving ...
Nathalie Gontier, Gontier, Nathalie
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What homeostasis leaves out: Kinorhesis, a physiological principle of transformation. [PDF]
J PhysiolThe Journal of Physiology, Volume 604, Issue 10, Page 3709-3713, 15 May 2026.
Horseman ND.
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Completeness of the Present System of Creation from the Perspective of Ibn Sina and Mulla Sadra [PDF]
حکمت صدرایی, 2012 The best possible system of creation is one of the issues discussed by different scholars.Ibn Sina and Mulla Sadra are among those raising this issue in a comprehensive way.
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Teleology in the Ayala’s F. J. biophilosophic thought
Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2015 Teleology is today one of the most important issues on Biology debate. Prof. F. J. Ayala strongly supports the uses of teleological explanations in Biology.
Diego Cano Espinosa
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Misconstruing Behavioral Consequences: Teleology or Teleonomy [PDF]
The Behavior Analyst, 1989 Abdulrazaq A. Imam
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Christian Bohr. Discoverer of Homotropic and Heterotopic Allostery: Periods Leading up to Bohr's Life, Work, and Beyond. Was Bohr a Vitalist and Right About a "Specific Activity"? [PDF]
Acta Physiol (Oxf)ABSTRACT This essay recounts and revisits the scientific contributions of Christian Bohr, highlighting his pivotal role in discovering allostery about 120 years ago. Bohr's meticulous experimentation led to identifying two distinct forms of allostery: homotropic (single‐ligand) and heterotropic (multi‐ligand), the latter widely recognized as the Bohr ...
Bindslev N.
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Teleonomy in Evolution: “The Ghost in the Machine”
, 2023 Peter A Corning, Corning Peter A
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