Meaning: phylogeny 
faɪ'lɑdʒənɪ /fɪ'lɒd-
n.
(biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny Idiom, Proverb
ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
The now-discredited accurate approach that an organism's beginning development, or ontogeny, follows the evolutionary stages of its species, or phylogeny. We were able to belie Haeckel's approach that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny by carefully belief beginning development.
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