In addition one may also speak of self-directed self-suitability, whose "goal" is the support and maintenance of the wholeness in question. Almost too surprising when one considers higher organisms only, but becoming more transparent after phylogenetic reduction to more simple conditions [i.e. looking to more primitive organisms].
The, not only for every one species but for every individual organism, complete and unlimited validity of the ESF, also stamping every organism as to an overall goal, relieves us from a series of "profound and weighty" pseudo-problems of the sort of how then the undeniably present goal of life as final cause could have influenced things from the beginning [that is, the problem of teleology]. or : From what does the supposed goal take its means to realize itself?