Crossword-Solution: DYSTELEOLOGY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dysteleology | n. | The doctrine of purposelessness; a term applied by Haeckel to that branch of physiology which treats of rudimentary organs, in view of their being useless to the life of the organism. |
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| the study of functionless rudimentary organs in animals and plants | 1 answer |
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Finally, I marked off dysteleology as the science of the aimless (vestigial, abortive, atrophied, and useless) organs and parts of the body.
Haeckel has given admirable discussions on this whole subject, under the title of Dysteleology, in his ‘Generelle Morphologie’ and ‘Schöpfungsgeschichte.’) Not one of the higher animals can be named which does not bear some part in a rudimentary condition; and man forms no exception to the rule.
But is it a teleology, or rather--to use the new-fangled term--a dysteleology? That depends upon how it is held.
DYSTELEOLOGY: the science of those features in organisms which refute the "design-argument." ECTODERM: the outer (ekto) layer of the embryo.
This is the science of rudimentary or useless organs; I have given it the name of "dysteleology" in view of its philosophic consequences.