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phylogeny

[fahy-loj-uh-nee] / faɪˈlɒdʒ ə ni /
NOUN
natural selection
Synonyms
WEAK
Darwinian theory Darwinism adaptation artificial selection biological evolution evolution evolutionism law of the jungle natural law social Darwinism social evolution survival of the fittest theory of evolution
NOUN
social Darwinism
Synonyms
WEAK
Darwinism adaptation evolution law of the jungle natural law natural selection social evolution survival of the fittest theory of evolution
NOUN
survival of the fittest
Synonyms
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Darwinianism Darwinism Neo-Darwinism adaptation evolution evolutionism law of the jungle natural law natural selection organic evolution punctuated equilibrium social Darwinism social evolution

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

From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2024

The results corroborated the systematic membership of Dermaptera to Polyneoptera and strongly supported the phylogeny within the order, which was inferred from the latest molecular phylogenetic analyses but was significantly different from the conventional understanding.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2024

"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

"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

Because our knowledge of the skeleton in hylids is so incomplete, we are not attempting to place Smilisca in the general scheme of hylid phylogeny on the basis of skeletal characters.

From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by Duellman, William E.

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