Borrowed from German Phylogenie, coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866, a neologism created as if borrowed from a Classic Greek word φυλογένεια, composed from Ancient Greek φῦλον ("tribe, genus, species") + Ancient Greek -γένεια ("-geny (generation, production)").
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