English > phylogeny: 1 sense > noun 1, process| Meaning | (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms. |
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| Synonyms | evolution, organic evolution, phylogenesis |
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| Category of | Scopes trial | A highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school |
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| Category | biology, biological science | The science that studies living organisms |
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| Narrower | anamorphosis, anamorphism | The evolution of one type of organism from another by a long series of gradual changes |
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| anthropogenesis, anthropogeny | The evolution or genesis of the human race |
| emergent evolution | The appearance of entirely new properties at certain critical stages / 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 |
| Broader | organic process, biological process | A process occurring in living organisms |
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| Spanish | evolución biológica, evolución, filogenia |
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| Catalan | evolució biològica, evolució, filogènesi, filogènia |
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| Adjectives | phylogenetic, phyletic | of or relating to the evolutionary development of organisms |
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