morphophyly

English

Etymology

Simplified learned borrowing from German Morphophylogenie, itself from morph- +‎ Phylogenie; equivalent to a reduction of morpho- +‎ phylogeny to morpho- (“shape”) +‎ -phyly (“tribehood”).

Noun

morphophyly (uncountable)

(historical, biology, theory of recapitulation, rare) The direct study of the evolution of forms rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.^[1]

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tribal history

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

physiophyly

References

“morphophyly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

^ Ernst Haeckel (1874) “Das Grundgesetz der organischen Entwickelung” (chapter I), in Anthropogenie; oder, Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen. Gemeinverständliche wissenschaftliche Vorträge über die Grundzüge der Menschlichen. Keimes- und Stammes-geschichte, volume 1, page 18; translated as “The Fundamental Law of the Evolution of Organisms”, in The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human Ontogeny and Phylogeny. From the German of Ernst Haeckel., 1897, page 24.

[haeckel-1] Ernst Haeckel (1874) “Das Grundgesetz der organischen Entwickelung” (chapter I), in Anthropogenie; oder, Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen. Gemeinverständliche wissenschaftliche Vorträge über die Grundzüge der Menschlichen. Keimes- und Stammes-geschichte, volume 1, page 18; translated as “The Fundamental Law of the Evolution of Organisms”, in The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human Ontogeny and Phylogeny. From the German of Ernst Haeckel., 1897, page 24.

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