Orthogenesis

... molecular drive, niche construction, saltationism, self-organization, epigenetics, Semiotics, hybridization, natural genetic engineering, orthogenesis, nomogenesis, hopeful monsters, directed mutagenesis, morphogenetic fields, transposable element (jumping genes), hox genes, controlling ...

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... hybridization, self-organization etc... theres even a mechanism called "internal selection" theres also controversial stuff like orthogenesis or directed mutagenesis or even claims about evolution & earths magnetic field or electromagnetic fields or if you want to be even ...

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... the notion that aquired traits can be inherited, saltation (evolution by jumps via large mutations etc), theistic evolution, vitalism or orthogenesis (internal directed evolution) etc. Neo-Lamarckism and Saltation there is evidence that these do occur and have occured. I suggest reading ...

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... autogenesis has been used to describe two similar concepts: * Abiogenesis - the origin of life, as used by Aristotle and in modern theory.[1] * Orthogenesis - a discredited evolutionary idea that hypothesised a directed 'teleological' form of evolution. I thought Abiogenesis had nothing to do ...

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