The term orthogenesis was introduced by Wilhelm Haacke in 1893 and popularized by Theodor Eimer five years later. Proponents of orthogenesis had rejected...

theistic evolution could take other forms, such as the orthogenesis of Teilhard de Chardin. Orthogenesis or Progressionism is the hypothesis that life has...

extinction. Support for orthogenesis began to decline during the modern synthesis in the 1940s, when it became apparent that orthogenesis could not explain...

Mutationism, along with other alternatives to Darwinism like Lamarckism and orthogenesis, was discarded by most biologists as they came to see that Mendelian...

of orthogenesis and others in the late 19th century who at this period of time firmly believed that there was a direction in evolution. Orthogenesis was...

evolution. He attempted to combine Lamarckism, natural selection and orthogenesis into a unified framework. Many of the factors of the modern synthesis...

or an innate tendency for "progress", as expressed in beliefs such as orthogenesis and evolutionism; realistically however, evolution has no long-term goal...

He rejected natural selection as a mechanism of evolution, favouring orthogenesis driven by a supposed "inner perfecting principle". Nägeli was born in...

inheritance into his theory of evolution as a supplement to his concept of orthogenesis, a drive towards complexity. Introductory textbooks contrast Lamarckism...

evolutionary theory of the Great Chain of Being and the now-outdated notion (orthogenesis) that simple organisms are more primitive than complex organisms. The...

Valdiviathyris (no visible change since the Priabonian, 35 million years ago) Orthogenesis Howard, Hildegarde (1947). "An ancestral Golden Eagle raises a question...

English translation appeared in 1911. The book proposed a version of orthogenesis in place of Darwin's mechanism of natural selection, suggesting that...

1843 – 29 May 1898) was a German zoologist. He was a popularizer of orthogenesis, a form of directed evolution through mutations that made use of Lamarckian...

Zallinger. It has been viewed as a picture of the discredited theory, orthogenesis, that evolution is progressive. As such, it has been widely parodied...

unconstitutional. His 1996 book on the idea of progress in biology (orthogenesis), Monad to Man, had a mixed reception from other philosophers of biology...

acquired characteristics (neo-Lamarckism), an innate drive for change (orthogenesis), and sudden large mutations (saltationism). Mendelian genetics, a series...

metrics. Many biologists used to believe that evolution was progressive (orthogenesis) and had a direction that led towards so-called "higher organisms", despite...

smaller ancestors with smaller antlers, was taken as a prime example of orthogenesis (directed evolution), an evolutionary mechanism opposed to Darwinian...

He is known for his own evolutionary theory, nomogenesis (a form of orthogenesis incorporating mutationism) as opposed to the theories of Darwin and Lamarck...

known as orthogenesis or evolutionary progress. Such goal-directedness implies a long-term teleological force; some supporters of orthogenesis considered...

Wisseman, Volker (ed.). Evolution on Rails Mechanisms and Levels of Orthogenesis. Universitätsverlag Göttingen. pp. 115–119. ISBN 978-3-938616-85-7. {{cite...

extinct species, but the genome will differ from the original species. Orthogenesis (contrastable with convergent evolution; involves teleology) However...

second law of thermodynamics." Conatus Emergence Joie de vivre Hylozoism Orthogenesis Parable of the Invisible Gardener Vis viva S. Atkinson ed., The Philosophy...

complexifying force that drives animal body plans towards higher levels (orthogenesis) creating a ladder of phyla, and 2) an adaptive force that causes animals...

convergent evolution Cretaceous crab revolution Mesozoic marine revolution Orthogenesis (comparable with convergent evolution but involving teleology) Baeza...

variations of Lamarckism (inheritance of acquired characteristics), orthogenesis (progressive evolution), saltationism (evolution by jumps) and mutationism...

were used to describe different positions from the 1890s to the 1920s: "Orthogenesis" (goal-directed evolution), "nomogenesis" (evolution according to fixed...

thought to arise through "jumps" rather than gradual adaptation, forms of orthogenesis claiming that species had an inherent tendency to change in a particular...

selection, also known as the Baldwin effect. Osborn was a believer in orthogenesis; he coined the term aristogenesis for his theory. His aristogenesis was...

deliberately improved themselves through progressive inherited change (orthogenesis). The teleological belief went on to include cultural evolution and social...