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Teleonomy provides the ratchet that drives the great transitions of cognitive capacity along the continuum.

Hypothesis about the role of goal-directedness in major evolutionary transitions.

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Endless forms most beautiful 2.0: teleonomy and the bioengineering of chimaeric and synthetic organisms

(2023) · Clawson, Wesley P. · Levin, Michael

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Gap junctions provide a dynamic that massively augments cooperative interactions and scales cognitive boundary.claim0.771
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