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phylogenesis

phy·lo·ge·nesis

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noun

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(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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