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語源

Borrowed from German Phylogenie, coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866, a neologism created as if borrowed from a Classic Greek word φυλογένεια (phulogéneia), composed from Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon, “tribe, genus, species”) + -γένεια (-géneia, “-geny (generation, production)”), equivalent to phylo- +‎ -geny.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /faɪˈlɒd͡ʒəni/
• (米国発音, Canada) IPA: /faɪˈlɑd͡ʒəni/

名詞

phylogeny (countable and uncountable, plural phylogenies)

1. (systematics) The evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades.
   • 2022, Paul McAuley, Beyond the Burn Line, Gollancz, page 43:

     It was a bestiary more than a hundred years old, its entries organised by a quaintly outdated phylogeny and illustrated with hand-tinted plates.

2. (systematics, informal) A phylogenetic diagram.

   Hyponym: tree of life

   Holonym: tree of life

3. The historical development of a human social or racial group.

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

4. The historical development of any thing, idea, etc.
   • 2010, The Journey of Child Development, →ISBN:

     Indeed, in a recent review article, Mithen (2009) traces the phylogeny of human communication […]

同意語

• phylogenesis

派生語

関連する語

• phylogenetics
• phylogenic
• phylesis

参考

• ontogeny
• philoxenia

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “phylogeny”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.