phylogeny

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noun

(biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms

Phylogeny in a sentence

Understanding the phylogeny of this musical group helps us understand its music.

It was a bestiary more than a hundred years old, its entries organised by a quaintly outdated phylogeny and illustrated with hand-tinted plates.

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