Found 2 items, similar to Phylogenesis.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: phylogenesis
phylogenesis
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)]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Phylogenesis
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 or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the
development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis,
or life development generally.
[1913 Webster]