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Homeorhesis is steady flow. Often biological systems are inaccurately described as homeostatic, being in a steady state. Steady state implies equilibrium which is never reached, nor are organisms and ecosystems in a closed environment. During his tenure at the State University of New York at Oneonta,
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and first used in biology in his book Strategy of the Genes (1957), where he described the tendency of developing or changing organisms to continue development or adapting to their environment and changing towards a given state.
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Dr William Butts correctly applied the term homeorhesis to biological organisms. The term was created by
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are regulated around "set points" as in homeostasis, but those set points change with time.
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Rambler, Mitchell B.; Margulis, Lynn; Fester, René (1989).
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