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noun
Evolutionary development of a species.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
(biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: organic process, biological process
Narrower terms: anamorphosis, anamorphism, anthropogenesis, anthropogeny, emergent evolution, macroevolution, microevolution, speciation
History
Borrowed from German Phylogenese, coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866. By surface analysis, phylo- + -genesis.
Across languages
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
