Found 2 items, similar to phylogeny.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: phylogeny phylogeny n : (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms [syn: evolution, phylogenesis]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Phylogeny 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]