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  • Phylogeny is the evolutionary history of a taxonomic group ...

    Umbrella. 2004

  • Phylogeny is the evolutionary history of a taxonomic group ...

    Archive 2004-11-01 2004

  • We give the name of "Phylogeny" to the science which describes this ascent of man from the lower ranks of the animal world.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • The following five lectures contain the most original matter of any, being devoted to "Phylogeny," or the working out of the details of the process of

    Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Multigene Phylogeny of Choanozoa and the Origin of Animals, PLos one 2008.

    Biomolecular Networks 2009

  • People also made a point of reading and discussing scientific books (I particularly remember conversations about Stephen Jay Gould's Ontogeny and Phylogeny and The Mismeasure of Man).

    Martin Chalfie - Autobiography 2009

  • For the Phylogeny of the individual is the most important of all.

    Haeckel had a point - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • The reproduction of the Phylogeny in the Ontogeny is but rarely tolerably complete.

    Haeckel had a point - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • Therefore, in the Ontogeny of higher animal forms the Phylogeny has been very greatly limited by Kenogenesis; as a rule, only a blurred and much vitiated picture of the original course of evolution of their ancestors now lies before us in the Ontogeny.

    Haeckel had a point - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • Long wrote a second story featuring Professor O'Flannigan, "Reverse Phylogeny", which will also be appearing in this blog.

    Mopping up "A Leak in the Fountain of Youth" Johnny Pez 2010

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