Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Biology The hypothesis, now largely discredited, that the evolution of species is linear and driven largely by internal factors rather than by natural selection.
- noun Anthropology The hypothesis that all cultures evolve in a linear manner from primitivism to civilization.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The direct or immediate origin of species, according to the opinion that it takes place by the ‘organic growth’ of one species into another in a definite line which is predetermined by the constitution which outward circumstances have given to each organism.
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- noun biology A
series of similarmutations insuccessive generations , producingevolutionary change.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The use of “evolution” to describe a predictable progressive alteration of phenotype usually is classified under the idea of orthogenesis which I think has been discredited.
Special Magazine Issues on Darwin, Evolution, ID Creationism - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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We should thus arrive at a demonstration of what Eimer called orthogenesis, or evolution in definite directions.
Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897
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But could those early storytellers have actually been feeling their way around the idea of orthogenesis, i.e., spontaneous birth, where life has the innate ability to move linearly?
ScreenTalk 2009
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But could those early storytellers have actually been feeling their way around the idea of orthogenesis, i.e., spontaneous birth, where life has the innate ability to move linearly?
ScreenTalk 2009
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But could those early storytellers have actually been feeling their way around the idea of orthogenesis, i.e., spontaneous birth, where life has the innate ability to move linearly?
ScreenTalk 2009
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But could those early storytellers have actually been feeling their way around the idea of orthogenesis, i.e., spontaneous birth, where life has the innate ability to move linearly?
ScreenTalk 2009
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But could those early storytellers have actually been feeling their way around the idea of orthogenesis, i.e., spontaneous birth, where life has the innate ability to move linearly?
ScreenTalk 2009
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But could those early storytellers have actually been feeling their way around the idea of orthogenesis, i.e., spontaneous birth, where life has the innate ability to move linearly?
ScreenTalk 2009
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The quotes above seem to be not so much anti-evolution, but in favor of a kind of orthogenesis which can be entirely materialist.
A critique of Himmelfarb's scientific views - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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We have tried to prove, on the contrary, by the example of the eye, that if there is "orthogenesis" here, a psychological cause intervenes.
Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900
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