Dysteleologie oder Unzweckmässigkeitslehre. (Wissenschaft von den rudimentären, abortiven, verkümmerten, fehlgeschlagenen, atrophischen oder cataplastischen Individuen.)
- dormancy
- downward causation
- downward classification
- drift
- drive
- dual inheritance system
- durability
- dynamic equilibrium
- dynamic morphology
- dynamic type
- dysteleology
- eccentricity
- eco-evo-devo
- ecocline
- ecodeme
- ecogenesis
- ecological development
- ecological diversity
- ecological ethics
- ecological inheritance
- ecological race
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dysteleologyDysteleologie (ger.)
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The doctrine of purposelessness, or denial of ‘final causes’, in nature; the study of apparently functionless rudimentary organs in animals and plants, as held to sustain this doctrine. (OED 2011)
- 1866
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Haeckel, E. (1866). Generelle Morphologie der Organismen, vol. 2: 266; cf. vol. 1: 99.
- 1982
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dysteleology Purposelessness; frustration of function; as when an insect obtains nectar from a flower by puncturing a nectary (a means not conducive to pollination) rather than via the floral opening.
Lincoln, R.J., Boxshall, G.A. & Clark, P.F. (1982). A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics: 73.