(historical) A local division of the people in ancient Athens; a clan; a tribe. / (historical) A subdivision of the priestly caste in ancient Egypt, headed by a phylarch.

plural of phyle

Of or pertaining to phylogeny; phylogenetic / Of or pertaining to gradual evolutionary change along a single line of descent

In a phyletic manner. / Regarding phylogeny.

phylogeny

A model of evolution which theorizes that most speciation is slow, uniform and gradual.

A taxonomist who uses both cladistics and phenetic data to construct a phylogeny.

A theory put forth by Russian palaeontologist Severtsov, postulating that phylogenetic changes in organisms are conditioned by ontogenetic alterations, in that certain events are added, modified or deleted in the development of an embryo based on the events of ancestral development.

Misspelling of phlyctenular.

plural of phyleticist