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phylogenesis
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun phylogenesis has 1 sense
- phylogenesis(n = noun.process) evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny - (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms; Array has particulars: anamorphism, anamorphosis, anthropogenesis, anthropogeny, emergent evolution, macroevolution, microevolution, speciation
is a kind of biological process, organic process
Derived form adjective phylogenetic1
CIDE DICTIONARY
phylogenesis, n. [Gr. tribe + E. genesis, or root of Gr. gi`gnesqai 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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
phylogenesis, n. (also phylogeny)
1 the evolutionary development of an organism or groups of organisms.
2 a history of this.
1 the evolutionary development of an organism or groups of organisms.
2 a history of this.
Derivative
phylogenetic adj. phylogenic adj.
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