Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as phytogeny.
- noun The doctrine of the generation of plants.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the
phylon or tribe, in distinction fromontogeny , or the development of the individual organism, and frombiogenesis , or life development generally.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Evolutionary development of a
species .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
Etymologies
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Examples
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Charlie, you totally reject the idea of phylogenesis, am I correct?
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Charlie, you totally reject the idea of phylogenesis, am I correct?
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The third version, unlike the more idealistic first and second vesions, intoroduces terms such as the unconscious, inhibition, and crisis, contains a crucial section on mesmerism, and is structured around the trauma of onto - and phylogenesis.
Article Abstracts 2008
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Much like in E. Haeckel's quip 'Ontogenesis recapitulates phylogenesis'.
Valerie Tarico: Christian Belief Through the Lens of Cognitive Science: Part 4 of 6 2009
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Best to leave that fancy stuff for later, and concentrate on more basic phylogenesis: it would be nice, for example, to be a vertebrate again.
Obama echoes the phrase that made me turn against Kerry. Ann Althouse 2008
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I was excited to meet him because I had read his dissertation on the phylogenesis of modern Megalonychidae, and I wanted to quiz him on certain . . . aspects of his research that I saw as questionable.
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One might expect that since current orthodoxy maintains that biological processes of ontogenesis proceed differently from the selectionist processes of phylogenesis, evolutionary epistemologies would reflect this difference.
Evolutionary Epistemology Bradie, Michael 2008
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Nothing in evolution makes sense except in the light of phylogenesis, like ontogenesis, being a front-loaded, self-limiting, self-terminating planned process where the environment plays little if any role outside of providing triggers to proceed to the next stage of diversification.
Nobel Laureate: "Intelligent Design" is An Attack on All of Science - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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The phylogenesis of the human species covers a process of evolution in which the organs that produce and identify sounds and the brain which makes sense of those sounds develop over a long period of time which includes the birth of Mankind.
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Already in this first of his generalizations Haeckel implied through the use of the verb bedingen a causal rela - tionship between ontogenesis and phylogenesis.
RECAPITULATION JANE OPPENHEIMER 1968
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