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单词 phyletic
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phyleticadj.

Brit. /fʌɪˈlɛtɪk/, U.S. /faɪˈlɛdɪk/
Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German phyletisch.
Etymology: < German phyletisch ( Haeckel Generelle Morphologie der Organismen (1866) II. xx. 299; < ancient Greek ϕυλετικός of or relating to a member of a tribe ( < ϕυλέτης member of a tribe ( < ϕυλή tribe (see phyle n.) + -της , suffix forming nouns) + -ικός -ic suffix)): see -ic suffix. Compare French phylétique (1874 in a translation of Haeckel).
Biology.
Of or relating to the evolutionary history and development of a species or taxonomic grouping; esp. designating or relating to evolution which proceeds by gradual change within successive generations of a single lineage, as distinct from that which involves the divergence of lineages.
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1877 Harper's Mag. Feb. 475/1 [The second part of Weismann's Studien der Descendenz-Theorie] is divided into four sections [including]..On the Phyletic Parallelism in Metamorphic Species.
1881 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 17 249/2 Presenting a picture..of phyletic development (that is, the changes through which the species has passed in its development).
1893 W. N. Parker & H. Rönnfeldt tr. A. Weismann Germ-plasm i. i. 56 The entire phyletic transformation of a species does not by any means alone depend on its intra-cellular variation.
1928 Brit. Jrnl. Med. Psychol. 8 59 It is my essential position that what we call mental is itself physiological when viewed in a social or phyletic as well as in an individual or ontogenetic sense.
1944 G. G. Simpson Tempo & Mode in Evol. vii. 205 Phyletic evolution goes on continuously..in populations of all sizes and kinds.
1969 E. Mayr Princ. Systematic Zool. x. 251 Species living at the present time are the current end points of innumerable phyletic lines.
1973 A. J. Pomerans tr. J. Piaget & B. Inhelder Memory & Intell. 2 Our first problem, then, is to distinguish between the acquired memory (or the memory proper) and the phyletic memory or conservation and utilization of hereditary information.
2002 S. J. Gould Struct. Evolutionary Theory x. 1104 Phyletic inference is treacherous, and absurd claims have been made in misanalogies between phyletic history and developmental anomaly.

Compounds

phyletic gradualism n. Biology a model of the evolutionary process which supposes that species arise by the gradual and continuous transformation of populations (in contrast to the punctuated-equilibrium model).
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1972 N. Eldredge & S. J. Gould in T. J. M. Schopf Models in Paleobiol. 89 In this Darwinian perspective, paleontology formulated its picture for the origin of new taxa... We refer to it here as ‘phyletic gradualism’.
1973 Evolution 29 7/2 Modern emphasis on phyletic gradualism has been an archaic holdover from nineteenth century evolutionists' attempts to document continuous evolutionary change.
1983 C. McGowan In Beginning iii. 30 Supporters of the concept of punctuated equilibrium do not deny that species sometimes evolve by phyletic gradualism; they just consider that this is the exception rather than the rule.
1999 D. K. Simonton Origins of Genius ii. 70 Evolutionary biologists recognize that phyletic gradualism and punctuated equilibria may represent end points of a continuum.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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