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phylogeny |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Phylogenesis \Phy`lo*gen"e*sis\, Phylogeny \Phy*log"e*ny\, n. [Gr. ? tribe + E. genesis, or root of Gr ? to be born.] The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: phylogeny n : the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms [syn: {evolution}, {phylogenesis}]
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