What homeostasis leaves out: Kinorhesis, a physiological principle of transformation

Every physiology textbook and course teaches about homeostasis as a fundamental theory or organizing principle of physiology, and the predominating emphasis in teaching physiology is on the maintenance of a ‘stable internal milieu’ as originally articulated by Claude Bernard (1885). Despite the extraordinary impact of the theory of homeostasis, there are transformative life-cycle events that cannot be explained by homeostasis. And transformative life-cycle processes, like homeostasis, are ubiqui