2. Adverb. Regarding phylogeny. ¹
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Definition of Phyletically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phyletically
Literary usage of Phyletically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"These reasons are that there is some want of correspondence of generic characters
between the genera of the, say, two families alleged to be phyletically ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1896)
"In the case selected, the condition is to be explained by the fact that although
the families are phyletically related, one or both of the two juxtaposed ..."
3. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Woman's body and soul is phyletically older and more primitive, ... Children are
phyletically even older than women, and after the first shock and fright ..."
4. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"... strands in an enlarged upper region of the leaf, and has been phyletically
progressive from a region lying above towards the base. A comparison of Fig. ..."
5. The Germ-plasm: A Theory of Heredity by August Weismann (1893)
"... which, however, has in most cases reached a higher stage of development;
fission must have arisen phyletically from regeneration. ..."
6. The Evolution Theory by August Weismann (1904)
"It not infrequently happens that cut-off parts regenerate, but that they do so
not in the modern form, but in one that is in all probability phyletically ..."
7. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"... certain characters, phyletically considered, must also be regarded as new
acquisitions, eg, the presence of a so-called closed tracheal system and of ..."
8. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"... phyletically the older will be spoken of when the sporangia are ... is in the
highest degree probable that the orthotropous are phyletically the older, ..."
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