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Definition of Orthogenesis

1. [n -GENESES]

Medical Definition of Orthogenesis

1. The doctrine that evolution is governed by intrinsic factors and occurs in predictable directions. Origin: ortho-+ G. Genesis, origin (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Orthogenesis

Literary usage of Orthogenesis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"Of these hypotheses that of orthogenesis stands first, although, as we shall see, all theories to account for the phenomena included within its scope are ..."

2. Darwinism To-day: A Discussion of Present-day Scientific Criticism of the by Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"Touching the criticism of orthogenesis, that it involves a teleologic element in its make-up, ... 239, 1895) his belief in orthogenesis as follows: ..."

3. The Mental Health of the School Child: The Psycho-educational Clinic in by John Edward Wallace Wallin (1914)
"... process of human orthogenesis: first, a process of physical orthogenesis, ... to its maximal potential; and secondly, a process of mental orthogenesis, ..."

4. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1898)
"ON orthogenesis AND THE IMPOTENCE OF NATURAL SELECTION IN SPECIES-FORMATION. By Th. Eimer, Religion of Science Library, No. 29. ..."

5. Naturalism and Religion by Rudolf Otto, John Arthur Thomson (1907)
"orthogenesis," or the definitely determined tendency of evolution to advance in a few directions, is a law for the whole of the animate world. ..."

6. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"orthogenesis. — Natural selection utilizes small variations in building up new species, and mutation calls large variations species. ..."

7. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"To phenomena of this kind, the term determinate variation or orthogenesis has been applied. This phrase seems to involve the theory that the evolution has ..."

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