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Definition of Phyletic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the evolutionary development of organisms. "Phylogenetic development"
Definition of Phyletic
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to phylogeny; phylogenetic ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Phyletic
1. phylesis [adj] - See also: phylesis
Medical Definition of Phyletic
1. Denoting the evolution of sequential changes in a line of descent by which one species is transformed into a new species. Origin: G. Phyletikos, tribal, fr. Phyle, a tribe (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phyletic
Literary usage of Phyletic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"RESULTS, phyletic AND MORPHOLOGICAL. IT remains to state the chief phyletic and
morphological conclusions which may be based upon the facts and the ..."
2. The Germ-plasm: A Theory of Heredity by August Weismann (1893)
"I shall here attempt to show how the phyletic changes in the ... Each phyletic
variation must therefore be due to a variation in the structure of the id of ..."
3. Intracellular Pangenesis: Including a Paper on Fertilization and Hybridization by Hugo de Vries (1910)
"It seems more important to me to distinguish between phyletic, ... although in
different ways, continue the germ-track, are obviously phyletic. ..."
4. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1904)
"The important differences of marking displayed by these 5 sections are not in
any way accidental, but they represent différent stages of phyletic ..."
5. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"IV phyletic HYPOTHESES RELATING TO THE FORMATION OF SPORANGIA I propose to deal
briefly here with the hypotheses to which origin has -.., been given by the ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"ing phyletic ideas, can only be properly understood by glancing back at the
history which has produced it. So long as species were regarded as the ..."
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