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Jul 4, 2012 This week's theme Words made with combining forms This week's words monology logomachy phylogeny scotophobia epigraphy Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg phylogeny PRONUNCIATION: (fy-LOJ-uh-nee) MEANING: noun: The evolutionary development of a species, a group of organisms, or a particular feature of an organism. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek phylo- (race, class) + -geny (origin). Phylogeny is very different from philogyny. Earliest documented use: 1869. USAGE: "Recognize your phylogeny. You are a Great Ape. We're more related to gorillas than most warblers are to each other." Audrey Schulman; Three Weeks in December; Europa; 2012. Explore "phylogeny" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. -Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928)

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