Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

phylogenesis

phylogenesis (fī`lo*jen;e*sis) , noun

[Greek fy^lon race, tribe + English genesis, or root of Greek gi`gnesqai to be born.]

The history of genealogical development; the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms; 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.

Also: phylogeny