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See definition of phylogeny on Dictionary.com
  • as innatural selection
  • as insocial Darwinism
  • as insurvival of the fittest

synonyms for phylogeny

  • Darwinian theory
  • Darwinism
  • adaptation
  • artificial selection
  • biological evolution
  • evolution
  • evolutionism
  • law of the jungle
  • natural law
  • social Darwinism
  • social evolution
  • survival of the fittest
  • theory of evolution
See also synonyms for: phylogenetic
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How to use phylogeny in a sentence

It is expressed by the formula of Herbert Spencer, "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny."
EDUCATION: HOW OLD THE NEWJAMES J. WALSH
These problems may be divided into two main groups, technically known as those of phylogeny and those of organogeny.
THE WORKS OF FRANCIS MAITLAND BALFOUR, VOLUME 1FRANCIS MAITLAND BALFOUR
From the point of view of phylogeny, the animal kingdom is, therefore, clearly much younger than the plant kingdom.
THE WONDERS OF LIFEERNST HAECKEL
The three most valuable sources of evidence in phylogeny are paleontology, comparative anatomy, and ontogeny.
THE WONDERS OF LIFEERNST HAECKEL
Scientific and thorough proof of this will be found in the three volumes of my Systematic Phylogeny .
THE WONDERS OF LIFEERNST HAECKEL
The youngest of the great branches of the living tree of biology is the science we call biological evolution, or phylogeny.
THE RIDDLE OF THE UNIVERSE AT THE CLOSE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURYERNST HAECKEL
Phylogeny reveals to us the historical development of the will within the ranks of our vertebrate ancestors.
THE RIDDLE OF THE UNIVERSE AT THE CLOSE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURYERNST HAECKEL
The Ontogeny of Caterpillars is a much abbreviated but slightly falsified repetition of the Phylogeny, 270.
STUDIES IN THE THEORY OF DESCENT (VOLUMES 1 AND 2)AUGUST WEISMANN
The osteology and the thigh musculature; their bearing on classification and phylogeny.
THE ANCESTRY OF MODERN AMPHIBIA: A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCETHEODORE H. EATON
In the further course of phylogeny the division of the cells into two parts takes place regularly.
A MECHANICO-PHYSIOLOGICAL THEORY OF ORGANIC EVOLUTIONCARL VON NGELI
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WORDS RELATED TO PHYLOGENY

  • Darwinian theory
  • Darwinism
  • adaptation
  • artificial selection
  • biological evolution
  • evolution
  • evolutionism
  • law of the jungle
  • natural law
  • phylogeny
  • social Darwinism
  • social evolution
  • survival of the fittest
  • theory of evolution
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.