phylogenetic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From phylo- genetic, from German phylogenetisch, coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866, from Phylogenese -isch.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]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.