PHYLOGENY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phylogeny mean? 

• PHYLOGENY (noun)
  The noun PHYLOGENY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PHYLOGENY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHYLOGENY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

evolution; organic evolution; phylogenesis; phylogeny

Hypernyms ("phylogeny" is a kind of...):

biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Domain member category:

Scopes trial (a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school; Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later reversed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phylogeny"):

anamorphism; anamorphosis (the evolution of one type of organism from another by a long series of gradual changes)

anthropogenesis; anthropogeny (the evolution or genesis of the human race)

emergent evolution (the appearance of entirely new properties at certain critical stages in the course of evolution)

macroevolution (evolution on a large scale extending over geologic era and resulting in the formation of new taxonomic groups)

microevolution (evolution resulting from small specific genetic changes that can lead to a new subspecies)

speciation (the evolution of a biological species)

 Context examples 

Development of the individual cell, as distinguished from phylogeny, which is evolutionary development of the species.

(Cell Ontogeny, NCI Thesaurus)