phyletic in English

adjective
1
relating to or denoting the evolutionary development of a species or other group.
Thus, whereas the initial evolution of potential radial folds may have been allopatric, in this case there must have been substantial phyletic evolution following speciation that affected the global population.
adjective
    phylogenetic

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1. Anagenesis is called phyletic evolution or progressive evolution

2. Anagenesis, also known as phyletic transformation or gradualism, is a mechanism in which one species evolves into another by evolutionary changes within a lineage

3. Anagenesis is an evolutionary process in which species continue to exist and survive as an interbreeding population. It is also referred to as phyletic transformation and involves evolution within a single lineage

4. Anagenesis – (The Progressive Evolution) Series of fossils in various taxa suggest that phyletic lines begin as primitive types during evolution and end up at higher level through progressive evolution.

5. Plante & Mayer: Bacteriolysis in the gut of Arenicola marina have also been profiled for bacteriolytic activity to rep- resent different modes of deposit feeding and to allow cross-phyletic comparisons

6. Gould, a professor of biology at Harvard University, is quoted as saying: “Phyletic gradualism was an a priori assumption from the start—it was never ‘seen’ in the rocks; it expressed the cultural and political biases of nineteenth-century liberalism.”

7. The complete and accurate repetition of phyletic by Biontic development is obliterated and abbreviated by secondary contraction, as ontogeny strikes out for itself an ever straighter course; accordingly, the repetition is the more complete the longer the series of young stages successively passed through.

8. Anagenesis, also known as "phyletic transformation", is when the new morphospecies is a result of rapid evolution in the ancestral form without speciation taking place, such that there are no remaining other populations of the ancestor species and the species can be considered extinct.The ancestor species is therefore superseded by the new species it morphs into.