morphophyly

Questions

What does morphophyly mean?

The direct study of the evolution of forms rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.

Where does morphophyly come from?

Simplified learned borrowing from German Morphophylogenie, itself from morph- + Phylogenie; equivalent to a reduction of morpho- + phylogeny to morpho- (“shape”) + -phyly (“tribehood”).

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