Orthogenesis
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Orthogenesis, orthogenetic evolution, progressive evolution or autogenesis, is the hypothesis that life has an innate tendency to evolve in a unilinear fashion due to some internal or external "driving force". The hypothesis is based on essentialism and cosmic teleology and proposes an intrinsic drive which slowly transforms species. George Gaylord Simpson (1953) in an attack on orthogenesis called this mechanism "the mysterious inner force".
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See also
- Eclipse of Darwinism
- Evolution of complexity
- Facilitated variation
- History of evolutionary thought
- Law of Complexity/Consciousness
- Teleonomy
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