{"id":8144,"date":"2019-05-22T16:04:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/homeorhesis\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:04:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:30","slug":"homeorhesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/homeorhesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeorhesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A term derived by <a href=\"http:\/\/intl-icb.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/40\/5\/729.full\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/intl-icb.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/40\/5\/729.full&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Waddington<\/a> from the Greek word <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">rhesis<\/span> meaning&nbsp;&#8216;to flow&#8217; and intended to convey the self-righting properties inherent to developing organisms. &nbsp;In contrast to homeostasis, which is concerned with the maintenance of an initial state (e.g., as with a thermostat), homeorhesis is depicted as a mechanism for maintaining an orderly sequence of developmental change in the face of both internal and external perturbations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"canalization\">Canalization<\/a>, <a href=\"epigenetic_landscape\">Epigenetic landscape<\/a>, <a href=\"epigenetics\">Epigenetics<\/a>, <a href=\"equifinality\">Equifinality<\/a>, Feedback  <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A term derived by Waddington from the Greek word rhesis meaning&nbsp;&#8216;to flow&#8217; and intended to convey the self-righting properties inherent to developing organisms. &nbsp;In contrast to homeostasis, which is concerned with the maintenance of an initial state (e.g., as with a thermostat), homeorhesis is depicted as a mechanism for maintaining an orderly sequence of developmental &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/homeorhesis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homeorhesis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}