phylogenetic
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Etymology
From phylo- + genetic, from German phylogenetisch, coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866, from Phylogenese + -isch.
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phylogenetic (not comparable)
- (systematics) Of, or relating to phylogeny or phylogenetics.
- 1893 January, Alexander Macalister, “The Study of Man”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 42:
- To each of these subdivisions of the phylum thus differentiated the name race may appropriately be restricted, and the sum of the peculiarities of each race may be termed race-characters. This is the phylogenetic side of anthropology, and its nomenclature should be kept clearly separate from that of the ethnological side.
- Of, or relating to the evolutionary development of organisms.
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