phylogeny

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If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest.

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  1. noun The evolutionary development and history of a species or higher taxonomic grouping of organisms. Also called phylogenesis.
  2. noun The evolutionary development of an organ or other part of an organism: the phylogeny of the amphibian intestinal tract.
  3. noun The historical development of a tribe or racial group.

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  • If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest. —  Richard Preston on the giant trees
  • This large body of sequence data harbors information about epidemiology, phylogeny, and virulence. —  BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • The size of the phylogeny is represented by color and dashing of the lines. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • When 'unresolving' only the most terminal nodes on the phylogeny, the NRI and NTI in the assemblages were generally highly correlated (r2 > 0.8) with the NRI and NTI values from the fully bifurcating phylogeny —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Converse to this pattern, when only the most terminal nodes of the phylogeny were unresolved the slopes from the NRI and NTI regression analyses were near one with small deviations above and below one. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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  1. Greek phūlon, race, class; see phylum + -geny.

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  1. = French phylogénie, from Greek φῡλον, φυλή, a tribe, + -γένεια, from -γενής, producing: see -geny.
 

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/faɪˈlɑdʒɛni/
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