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Phylogeny

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) 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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Phylogeny'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/phylogeny.html. 1828.