The rich variety of biological forms and behaviours results from one evolutionary history on
Earth, via frozen accidents and selection in specific environments. This ubiquitous baggage …

New Findings What is the topic of this review? Revisiting the 2013 article 'Physiology is
rocking the foundations of evolutionary biology'. What advances does it highlight? The …

An introduction, overview and discussion are provided for this special issue of the Biological
Journal of the Linnean Society, entitled 'Teleonomy in Living Systems'. The introduction …

Global climate change poses challenges to land use worldwide, and we need to reconsider
agricultural practices. While it is generally accepted that biodiversity can be used as a …

This essay presents various reflections on living systems, what they are and how they
evolve, prompted by editing Teleonomy in Living Systems (a special issue of the Biological …

The goal-directedness of biological evolution is realized via the anticipatory achievement of
the final state of the system that corresponds to the condition of its perfection in self …

Many developments over the past few decades have undermined the central tenets of the so-
called 'Modern Synthesis' in evolutionary biology—including its narrow focus on genetic …

A theoretical framework is provided to explore teleonomy as a problem of self-causation,
distinct from upward, downward and reticulate causation. Causality theories in biology are …

In recent years, the scientific community has increasingly recognized the complex multiscale
competency architecture (MCA) of biology, comprising nested layers of active homeostatic …

In the evolution of species, the karyotype changes with a timescale of tens to hundreds of
thousand years. In the development of cancer, the karyotype often is modified in cancerous …