phylogenesisn.
/ˌfʌɪlə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnᵻsɪs/, U.S. /ˌfaɪloʊˈdʒɛnəsəs/ Biology.
The evolutionary development of a species or other group of organisms through a succession of forms. Also: the evolutionary development of a particular (esp. anatomical) feature of an organism. Also in extended use. Cf. ontogenesis n., phylogeny n. 1.
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the world > life > biology > theories > [noun] > of genetics or evolution
theory of preformation1756
Darwinizing1807
development hypothesis1845
generationism1847
theory of evolution1858
Darwinism1860
Darwinianism1861
monogenesis1864
monogenism1865
monogeny1865
pangenesis1868
evolutionism1869
phylogeny1869
polygenism1871
derivation1874
phylogenesis1875
transformism1878
biogenetic law1879
gastraea theory1879
fortuitism1881
organicism1883
hereditism1884
kinetogenesis1884
Lamarckianism1884
Lamarckism1884
neo-Lamarckianism1884
monogenesy1885
neo-Lamarckism1887
preformationism1890
neo-Darwinism1891
blastogenesis1893
Haeckel-ismus1894
Weismannism1894
preformism1895
Haeckelism1899
mutation theory1902
directivity1903
Mendelianism1903
Mendelism1903
hereditarianism1906
mutationism1912
selectionism1912
hologenesis1931
parsimony1931
Morganism1934
Lysenkoism1948
neutralism1972
punctuated equilibrium1972
saltationism1975
punctuationism1977
punctuationalism1978
adaptationism1980
geneticism1984
adaptationalism1985
the world > life > biology > biological processes > evolution > [noun] > processes or types of evolution
transmutation1626
substitution1822
subspeciation1826
metamorphosis1835
phytogenesis1847
phytogeny1850
anamorphosis1852
correlation1859
advergence1861
convergence1861
phylogeny1869
ontogeny1872
recapitulation1874
ontogenesis1875
phylogenesis1875
biogenesis1876
abiogenesis1884
anagenesis1889
tachygenesis1893
orthogenesis1895
adaptive radiation1898
speciation1906
microevolution1911
subspeciation1921
raciation1934
orthogenetics1937
encephalization1938
proterogenesis1938
allomorphosis1941
cladogenesis1953
Wallace effect1966
metachromism1968
punctuation1976
speciational evolution1988
tachygen-
the world > life > biology > study > [noun] > evolution > branches of
phylogeny1869
phylogenesis1875
morphophyly1879
phylogenetics1899
1875 tr. E. O. Schmidt Doctr. Descent & Darwinism 217 The families within which we have as yet been able to compare Ontogenesis with Philogenesis [Ger. Phylogenie], constantly approximate in their origin.
1879 tr. E. Haeckel Evol. Man I. i. 7 Phylogenesis is the mechanical cause of Ontogenesis: The Evolution of the Tribe..effects all the..Evolution of the Germ or Embryo.
1881 S. V. Clevenger in Amer. Naturalist 15 513 Certain aspects in the phylogenesis of the spinal cord.
1926 W. McDougall Introd. Social Psychol. (ed. 20) 402 The psychologist may legitimately speculate on the problems of phylogenesis; but he is under no obligation to offer any phylogenetic theory.
1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Nov. 659/1 He [sc. Jung] claimed that the doctrine which asserts that ontogenesis is a repetition of phylogenesis was also true of psychic life.
1977 P. Johnson Enemies of Society xvii. 226 Since the phylogenesis of music is communication, it must have a structure.
1983 E. C. Minkoff Evolutionary Biol. xvii. 279/1 The term phylogenesis may be used to refer to the evolutionary processes of anagenesis and cladogenesis together.
2000 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 13886/2 Our results—combined with previous studies on the biology of neural stem cells and the phylogenesis and ontogenesis of glia—lead us to propose a model (Fig. 5).
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