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Phylogeny   /faɪlˈɑdʒəni/   Listen
Phylogeny

noun
1.
(biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms.  Synonyms: evolution, organic evolution, phylogenesis.





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"Phylogeny" Quotes from Famous Books



... more than one museum. "So we are taught; but try to reconstruct the steps in their evolution and you realise your hopeless ignorance" (M., p. 11). If we cannot construct a "tree" for fowls, how absurd to adventure into the deeper recesses of Phylogeny. If all that Professor Bateson says is true, is not Driesch right when he speaks ...
— Science and Morals and Other Essays • Bertram Coghill Alan Windle


Words linked to "Phylogeny" :   biological process, anthropogeny, Scopes trial, speciation, anamorphism, organic evolution, anthropogenesis, organic process, biological science, anamorphosis, biology, emergent evolution, evolution, microevolution, macroevolution


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