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  • noun Plural of phylum.

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  • noun Plural form of phylum.
  • noun Plural form of phylon.

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Examples

  • But Darwin knew that the major animal groups-which modern biologists call "phyla" - appeared fully formed in what were at the time the earliest known fossil-bearing rocks, deposited during a geological period known as the Cambrian.

    Evolution News & Views jwells 2009

  • But Darwin knew that the major animal groups-which modern biologists call "phyla" - appeared fully formed in what were at the time the earliest known fossil-bearing rocks, deposited during a geological period known as the Cambrian.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • The organisms within each kingdom can then be further divided into different groups called phyla (fie 'luh), the singular of which is phylum (fie' lum).

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • The organisms within each kingdom can then be further divided into different groups called phyla (fie 'luh), the singular of which is phylum (fie' lum).

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] TK 2010

  • Neo-Darwinism and front-loaded hypotheses expect the opposite pattern, a ‘bottom-up’ pattern in which small differences in form accumulate first differentiating species and genera from each other and then only much later building to the large-scale differences in form that differentiate higher taxonomic categories such as phyla and classes.

    Signature in the Cell: self-contradiction and repetition - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • Meyer asserts that the Cambrian explosion represented an actual sudden origin of higher taxa; that these taxa such as phyla are “real” and not an artifact of human retrospective classification; and that morphological disparity coincides with phyletic categories.

    The Panda's Thumb: MustRead Archives 2008

  • It is Meyer's opinion (as mentioned in other articles) that the "Cambrian Explosion" is the time when "40 separate major groups of organisms or" phyla "(including all the basic body plans of modern animals) emerged suddenly without clear precursors.".

    ID Research, Look to the Example 2005

  • Even worse, Quammen ignores the Cambrian explosion, in which many of the major groups ( "phyla") of animals appeared in a geologically short time with no fossil evidence of common ancestry -- a fact that Darwin himself considered a "serious" problem that

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2010

  • Even worse, Quammen ignores the Cambrian explosion, in which many of the major groups ( "phyla") of animals appeared in a geologically short time with no fossil evidence of common ancestry -- a fact that Darwin himself considered a "serious" problem that

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2010

  • Even worse, Quammen ignores the Cambrian explosion, in which many of the major groups ( "phyla") of animals appeared in a geologically short time with no fossil evidence of common ancestry -- a fact that Darwin himself considered a "serious" problem that

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2010

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