phylogenetic
adjUS /ˌfaɪ.loʊ.d͡ʒəˈnɛt.ɪk/
Etymology From phylo- + genetic, from German phylogenetisch, coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866, from Phylogenese + -isch.
1
Of, or relating to phylogeny or phylogenetics.
- 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.1893 January, Alexander Macalister, “The Study of Man”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 42:
2
Of, or relating to the evolutionary development of organisms.
- Derived terms
- cophylogenetic, ecophylogenetic, geophylogenetic, monophylogenetic, nonphylogenetic, phylogenetically, phylogenetic tree, prephylogenetic
- Related terms
- phylogenetics, phylogenesis, phylogeny, taxonomic