Teleology in biology
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Teleology in biology
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Teleology in biology is the use of the language of goal-directedness in accounts of evolutionary adaptation, which some biologists and philosophers of science find problematic. The term teleonomy has also been proposed. Before Darwin, organisms were seen as existing because God had designed and created them; their features such as eyes were taken by natural theology to have been made to enable them to carry out their functions, such as seeing. Evolutionary biologists often use similar teleologi
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Use of language of goal-directedness in the context of evolutionary adaptation
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2024-03-03T09:30:28Z
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