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Example sentences for: teleological

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As a group, molecular biologists shy away from teleological matters, perhaps because early attitudes in molecular biology were shaped by physicists and chemists.
The former teleological interpretation of purpose has been replaced by an evolutionary perspective.
These elements can be seen as the foundations of a new calculus of purpose, enabling biologists to take on the much-neglected teleological side of molecular biology.
Gene regulation, intracellular signaling pathways, metabolic networks, developmental programs—the current information deluge is revealing these systems to be so complex that molecular biologists are forced to wrestle with an overtly teleological question: What purpose does all this complexity serve?
Molecular biology and molecular genetics might continue to dodge teleological issues were it not for their fields' remarkable recent successes.