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 from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.
Source: Webster's dictionaryChild psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny. Wilhelm Wundt
A 2005 molecular phylogeny, based on rDNA analysis, suggests that salamanders and caecilians are more closely related to each other than they are to frogs. Source: Internet
According to a phylogeny derived from nuclear sequences, the Eurasian golden jackal (Canis aureus) diverged from the wolf/coyote lineage 1.9 million years ago but the African golden wolf separated 1.3 million years ago. Source: Internet
A comprehensive phylogeny by Goloboff et al. citation includes xenarthrans as a sister clade of Euarchontoglires within Boreoeutheria ( Laurasiatheria Euarchontoglires ). Source: Internet
A. M. Khazen, on the one hand, states that "ontogeny is obliged to repeat the main stages of phylogeny." Source: Internet
A method for deducing branching sequences in phylogeny. Source: Internet