phylogenesis
phy·lo·ge·nesis
noun
1.
(biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
Origin
Borrowed from German Phylogenese, coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866. By surface analysis, phylo- + -genesis.
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