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phylogenesis Biol.|faɪləʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs| [mod.L. f. phylo- + -genesis; coined in Ger. (E. Haeckel Generelle Morphologie der Organismen (1866) II. xx. 299).] The genesis or evolution of the tribe or race; the evolution of any organ or feature in the race; = phylogeny 1. Also transf.
1875tr. Schmidt's Desc. & Darw. 217 The families within which we have as yet been able to compare Ontogenesis with Phylogenesis, constantly approximate in their origin. 1879tr. Haeckel's Evol. Man I. i. 7 Phylogenesis is the mechanical cause of Ontogenesis: The Evolution of the Tribe..effects all the..Evolution of the Germ or Embryo. 1881S. V. Clevenger in Amer. Nat. July 513 Certain aspects in the phylogenesis of the spinal cord. 1926W. McDougall Introd. Social Psychol. (ed. 20) 402 The psychologist may legitimately speculate on the problems of phylogenesis; but he is under no obligation to offer any phylogenetic theory. 1940Hinsie & Shatzky Psychiatric Dict. 418/2 The biological concept of phylogenesis has been used in different ways for analytical analogies in the psychological sphere, in order to emphasize the role of racial elements in the manifestations of the psyche. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Nov. 659/1 He [sc. Jung] claimed that the doctrine which asserts that ontogenesis is a repetition of phylogenesis was also true of psychic life. 1966Davis & Zangerl tr. Hennig's Phylogenetic Systematics iii. 199 Phylogenesis is the origin of groups of species from a stem species and its descendants by progressive splitting. 1977P. Johnson Enemies of Society xvii. 226 Since the phylogenesis of music is communication, it must have a structure. |