Teleology for the perplexed: How matter began to matter

Zygon

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 873-901

  Sherman, Jeremy ^a   Deacon, Terrence W ^b  

^a Department of Social Science   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apophatic; Autocell; Emergence; Evolvability; Meaning; Morphodynamics; Origins of life; Purpose; Self organization; Supernatural; Teleodynamics; Teleology; Telos; Theology; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 36549040031     PISSN: 05912385     EISSN: 14679744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2007.00878.x     Document Type: Article

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