Hypertext Webster Gateway: "phylogenesis"
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) 1.7 (wn)
phylogenesis
n : the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary
development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
[syn: {evolution}, {phylogeny}]
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