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PHYLOGENY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
Synonyms:
evolution; organic evolution; phylogenesis; phylogeny
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
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)
