phylogeny
noun
the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
phylogenesis
-
a variation of
phylogeny.
Example Sentences
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Both states, hypnosis and group formation, are an inherited deposit from the phylogenesis of the human libido—hypnosis in the form of a predisposition, and the group, besides this, as a direct survival.
From Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Sigmund Freud
But these efforts were so seriously marred by ignorance of comparative anatomy, an imperfect acquaintance with ontogenesis, and a complete neglect of phylogenesis, that they could not have more than a passing success.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
Or, briefly stated, ontogenesis, or the embryonic development of the individual, is a brief recapitulation of phylogenesis, or the ancestral development of the phylum or group.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler
We have concentrated the full force of our discussion upon an example drawn from phylogenesis.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
Ontogenesis, on-tō-jen′e-sis, n. the history of the individual development of an organised being as distinguished from phylogenesis and biogenesis—also Ontog′eny.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
