phylogenetic

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Of or relating to phylogeny or phylogenetics.

Relating to or based on evolutionary development or history.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

It will be noted that the phylogenetic order follows that of Grinnell rather than the one proposed herein.
Speciation in the Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys ordii|Henry W. Setzer
The methods were not phylogenetic, as they have since become under the influence of evolutionary belief.
Makers of British Botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists|Various
This distinction has a phylogenetic significance similar to the division between cœlenteria and cœlomaria in the animal kingdom.
The Wonders of Life|Ernst Haeckel
Still, I could only give the barest outlines in it of my chief object, the phylogenetic construction of a natural system.
The Riddle of the Universe at the close of the nineteenth century|Ernst Haeckel

Is it possible for embryology to recapitulate such a phylogenetic history more clearly than is here the case?
The Origin of Vertebrates|Walter Holbrook Gaskell