The sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Evolutionary development of a species.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Phylogenesis ( 1999 ) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster . It is the first novel in Foster's Founding of the Commonwealth Trilogy . In Phylogenesis Foster begins to further expand the history of the founding of the Humanx Commonwealth ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1870, coined in German by Haeckel, from phylo- + -genesis "birth, origin, creation."

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n. (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms [syn: evolution , phylogeny ] [also: phylogeneses (pl)]

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Phylogenesis \Phy`lo*gen"e*sis\, Phylogeny \Phy*log"e*ny\, 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 ...