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n. The evolutionary development and history of a species or higher taxonomic grouping of organisms. Also called phylogenesis.

n. The evolutionary development of an organ or other part of an organism: the phylogeny of the amphibian intestinal tract.

n. The historical development of a tribe or racial group.

n. The evolutionary history of an organism.

n. A phylogenetic diagram.

n. The historical development of a human social or racial group

n. That branch of biology which attempts to deduce the ancestral history of an animal or a plant from its ontogeny or individual developmental metamorphoses; tribal history: opposed to ontogeny, or the origin and development of individual organisms. Also phylogenesis.

n. (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms

"Understanding a phylogeny is a lot like reading a family tree."

biological process    organic process   

ontogeny   

phylogenetics    phylogenic   

anamorphism    microevolution    speciation    anthropogenesis    macroevolution    anthropogeny    emergent evolution    anamorphosis   

ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny   

phylogenesis   

homogeny    ontogeny    progeny   

appearsto    virology    free-body    glycols    gene-splicing    biophysics    dextran    dipoles    epitaxy    neurobiology