phylogeny

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The researchers combined these data with a global phylogeny of all plant species and the world's largest database of plant traits, 'TRY'.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024

Next, the team mapped out the branches of the phylogeny that featured living bioluminescent species.

From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2024

"Acoustic communication, broadly distributed along the vertebrate phylogeny, plays a fundamental role in parental care, mate attraction and various other behaviours."

From Salon • Nov. 9, 2022

"Acoustic communication, broadly distributed along the vertebrate phylogeny, plays a fundamental role in parental care, mate attraction and various other behaviours," the authors explain in their study.

From Salon • Nov. 9, 2022

But in these writings his main argument is that of his concluding chapter: the spontaneous adaptiveness of the organism, which nullifies all contingent theories to explain the purposiveness in ontogeny and phylogeny.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf