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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

phylogenesis

/(fī`lō̇*jĕn;ē̇*sĭs)/ · phy·lo·gen·e·sis · IPA
01 n. The history of genealogical development; the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of…
  1. 1.
    The history of genealogical development; the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.
Syn. evolution.