phylogeny Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
    phylogenesis; evolution; organic evolution.

WordNet

Phy`lo*gen"e*sis, Phy*log"e*ny noun (Also<
  • Phylogenesis
  • Phylogeny
)
Etymology
Gr. tribe + E. genesis, or root of Gr. to be born.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913