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Phylogenesis

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Noun
  1. 1
    Evolutionary development of a species. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from German Phylogenese, coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866. By surface analysis, phylo- + -genesis.

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