Teleology in biology
Teleology in biology
Use of language of goal-directedness in the context of evolutionary adaptation.
No account needed. By playing, you confirm you're 13 or older and agree to the Terms of use.
No owners yet
Category: Empty
- 0 owners
- 0 copies
- 0 pulls
- Wishlisted
- 0
- In 0 albums
- On 0 showcases
- Market listings
- 0
Not sold on the market yet.
Readers' pathsAug 2026 – Oct 2026
Readers go next to
Share of the 413 clicks on its links
Orthogenesis
Hypothesis that organisms have an innate tendency to evolve towards some goal.
21%
Teleology
Thinking in terms of destiny or purpose.
16%
Stotting
Jumping display of quadrupeds.
14%
Hermann Lotze
German philosopher and logician (1817–1881).
9.4%
J. B. S. Haldane
Geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1892–1964).
5.6%
Francisco J. Ayala
Spanish-American biologist and philosopher (1934–2023).
2.9%
Springbok
Antelope of southwest and south Africa.
2.4%
Readers come from
Share of the 1,131 readers arriving from another article
Orthogenesis
Hypothesis that organisms have an innate tendency to evolve towards some goal.
24%
Noosphere
Philosophical concept of biosphere successor via humankind's rational activities.
15%
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724–1804).
9.7%
Teleology
Thinking in terms of destiny or purpose.
8.9%
Five Ways (Aquinas)
Aquinas's arguments that there is a real God.
3%
Four causes
Topic in Aristotelian philosophy.
2.9%
Philosophy of biology
Subfield of philosophy of science.
2.7%
Alternatives to Darwinian evolution
List of alternatives to Darwinian natural selection.
1.9%
Life
Matter with biological processes.
0.88%