phylogeny

The evolutionary development and history of a species or trait of a species or of a higher taxonomic grouping of organisms.

A model or diagram delineating such an evolutionary history.

A similar model or diagram delineating the development of a cultural feature.

That branch of biology which attempts to deduce the ancestral history of an animal or a plant from its ontogeny or individual developmental metamorphoses; tribal history: opposed to ontogeny, or the origin and development of individual organisms. Also phylogenesis.

The evolutionary history of an organism.

A phylogenetic diagram.

The historical development of a human social or racial group

(biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms