phylogenesis /(fī`lō̇*jĕn;ē̇*sĭs)/

phy·lo·gen·e·sis

phylogenesis

n.
  1. The history of genealogical development; the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.