teleogenesis

  1. Noun.  (cybernetics) Autonomous setting of goals.
  2. Noun.  (dated, rare) A regime of controlled, intentional reproduction.
  3. Noun.  (biology, dated) The preferential evolution of features and organs in certain ways.

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