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• n  (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms

• My philosophy prof says that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
• The largest retrospective of abstract expressionism's most inventive practitioner traces the phylogeny of a style, but unhappily omits some of its greatest examples.
• His body is not his alone, since he owes something to the phylogeny that has endowed it and to the society that has arranged for its protection and nourishment.

• evolution
• organic evolution
• phylogenesis

News & Articles

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• UC Davis study: Family tree of fish yields surprises
  The mighty tuna is more closely related to the dainty seahorse than to a marlin or sailfish. That is one of the surprises from the first comprehensive family tree, or phylogeny, of the "spiny-rayed fish," a group that includes about a third of all living vertebrate species.
  July 24, 2013 - The Daily Democrat

Quotes

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• Huntington Willard in LiveScience.com
  Anne was one of the first and most energetic adopters of genetic and genomic approaches to sort out the phylogeny of lemurs,said Hunt Willard, director of the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy at Duke. "She recognized early on that...