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Categories: Orthogenesis, History of evolutionary biology, Non-Darwinian evolution, Obsolete biological theories, Articles with short description
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orthogenesis  Allelogenesis  Apogenesis  Autoevolution  Biological periodicity
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Orthogenesis, also known as orthogenetic evolution, progressive evolution, evolutionary progress, or progressionism, is an obsolete biological hypothesis that organisms have an innate tendency to evolve in a definite direction towards some goal due to some internal mechanism or "driving force". Wikipedia
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Orthogenesis, also known as orthogenetic evolution, progressive evolution, evolutionary progress, or progressionism, is an obsolete biological hypothesis that organisms have an innate tendency to evolve in a definite direction towards some goal due to some internal mechanism or "driving force". Wikipedia
A discredited evolutionary idea that hypothesised a directed teleological form of evolution Wikipedia Disambiguation
Hypothesis that organisms have an innate tendency to evolve towards some goal Wikidata
The hypothesis that evolution tends toward a certain goal, at least at some scales. Wiktionary
The hypothesis that evolution tends toward a certain goal. Wiktionary (translation)
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evolution
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Allelogenesis, Apogenesis, Autoevolution (biology), Biological periodicity, Biological progress, evolution and progress, Historical biogenetics, History is not linear, Linear evolution, mysterious inner force, Orthogenesis (biology), orthogenetic, orthogenetic evolution, Orthogeneticist, Orthogenisis, Plasmatic inheritance, progress (evolution), progress and evolution, Progress in biology, Progress in evolution, progressionism, progressive evolution, Trägheitsgesetz

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