Sometimes, again in the context of evolution, purpose is attributed to an internal or external directional force to evolution.
We suggested in an earlier article (Mead and Scott 2010) that the differing scientific and student interpretations of two concepts commonly used in teaching evolution, purpose and design, may exacerbate such a position.
Problem concepts in evolution: Cause, purpose, design, and chance.
Although acknowledging that a religious education complicates further the teaching of evolution, our purpose in this study is to analyze the relevance to the teaching process of a way of thinking that is common to both religious and non-religious people.
As part of a series of projects investigating climate change and evolution, the purpose of this study is to investigate whether climate change can potentially cause evolution by two processes other than natural selection: assortative mating within populations and alterations in gene flow among populations.
Problem concepts in evolution part I: Purpose and design.
Getting an initial understanding of the structure of a software system, whether it is for software maintenance, evolution or reengineering purposes, is a nontrivial task.
Finally, an algorithm will be put forward which may be used to modify somatic cancer evolution for therapeutic purposes.
Testable hypotheses which focus on isolated aspects and analyze few genetic elements have been derived from the systems approach and an algorithm has been proposed which may be used to modify somatic cancer evolution for therapeutic purposes in individual patients.
The irony lies in the fact that modern biology has been focused in many ways on expunging the role of mind or purpose in evolution, and yet mind and purpose are at the very heart of Teilhard de Chardin's vision of universal evolution.
