Phylogeny Definition

Phylogeny Sentence Examples

• The most striking general change has been against seeing in the facts of ontogeny any direct evidence as to phylogeny.

• This makes the use of molecular data vital for reconstructing louse phylogeny at this taxonomic level.

• Homogeny, in contrast, the " special homology " of Owen, is the supreme test of kinship or of hereditary relationship, and thus the basis of all sound reasoning in phylogeny.

• Few or no extinct types are to be found in these older strata - there is nothing among the plants equivalent to the unmistakably extinct Ammonites, Belemnites, and a hundred other groups, and we only meet with constant variations in the same genus or family, these variations having seldom any obvious relation to phylogeny.

• Evidence that the phylogeny inferred from protein and DNA sequence comparisons is correlated with the phylogeny inferred from evolutionary biology.