The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.

the history of evolution of races, species, tribes.

(biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms

The sequence of events involved in the evolution of a species. See Species.