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How to use phylogeny in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Phylogeny means the evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades. Example: “Understanding the phylogeny of this musical group helps us understand its music.”

Examples of phylogeny by meaning

nounThe evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades.

  • It was a bestiary more than a hundred years old, its entries organised by a quaintly outdated phylogeny and illustrated with hand-tinted plates.2022, Paul McAuley, Beyond the Burn Line, Gollancz, page 43

nounThe historical development of a human social or racial group.

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

More sentences with phylogeny

  • The molecular phylogeny of Cibicides incldues a phialine lip near the aperature.From the entry phialine
  • With reference to seedling stages the statement that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny must be made with great reserve.1905, J. A. Harris, "The Importance of Investigations of Seedling Stages," Science, New Series, vol. 22, no. 554, p. 186. From the entry ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
  • Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny: individual evolution repeats species evolution.2013 January 23, Joshua Morris, Acorns: Windows High-Tide Foghat, Volume 4, volume 4, iUniverse, →ISBN. From the entry precapitulate
  • Current conceptions of gnathostome phylogeny depict a rather simplistic arrangement of nominally monophyletic and, apparently, morphologically disparate groups.2009 January 15, Martin D. Brazeau, “The braincase and jaws of a Devonian 'acanthodian' and modern gnathostome origins”, Nature Volume 457…. From the entry gnathostome
  • Thus, nectarivory as a specialized diet is rare among parrot species and occurs in only a few isolated branches of the parrot phylogeny.2015, Catherine A. Tofy, Parrots of the Wild: A Natural History of the World's Most Captivating Birds. From the entry nectarivory
  • Haeckel maintained that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, and this idea was incorporated by Lombroso into his parallelism between the criminal and the child.1961, M. E. Wolfgang, “Pioneers in Criminology: Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909)”, in The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police…. From the entry ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
  • Furthermore, the constancy of adelphogamous marriages in the phylogeny of Anergates is a phenomenon the like of which is as yet unknown in nature.1928, August Forel, The Social World of the Ants, page 407. From the entry adelphogamous
  • We used three search heuristics, Bayesian inference, maximum likelihood, and maximum parsimony, to construct phylogenies from unique COI haplotypes and used default parameters for analyses unless otherwise noted.2019 February 15, Boyd A. Mori [et al.], “A New Species of Contarinia Rondani (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) that Induces Flower Galls on Canola…. From the entry parsimony
  • Previous phylogenies including multiple members of microgastrine genera have shown patterns of high host specificity within species and a high degree of host conservatism among closely related species.2016 March 5, “Morphological and Molecular Characterization of Reared Parasitoid Wasps of the Genus Glyptapanteles Ashmead 1904 (Insecta…. From the entry microgastrine

Meaning of phylogeny

  1. noun The evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades.
  2. noun A phylogenetic diagram.
  3. noun The historical development of a human social or racial group.

Full definition of phylogeny

Questions about phylogeny in a sentence

How do you use phylogeny in a sentence?
Phylogeny is used as a noun. For example: “Understanding the phylogeny of this musical group helps us understand its music.”
What is a short sentence with phylogeny?
“Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny: individual evolution repeats species evolution.”
What does phylogeny mean?
Phylogeny means the evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades.

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