teleogenesis

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noun
  1. 1

    (cybernetics) Autonomous setting of goals

  2. 2

    (dated, rare) A regime of controlled, intentional reproduction

  3. 3

    (biology, dated, rare) The preferential evolution of features and organs in certain ways