
Homeorhesis, derived from the Greek for `similar flow`, is a concept encompassing dynamical systems which return to a trajectory, as opposed to systems which return to a particular state, which is termed homeostasis. ==Biology== Homeorhesis is steady flow. Often biological systems are inaccurately described as homeostatic, being in a steady stat.....
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(from the article `biological development`) ...in such systems is a regulation not back to an initial stable equilibrium, as in homeostasis, but to some future stretch of the time trajectory. ...
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