noun (n)

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

  Synonym:
  evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny
  

  source: wordnet30
• The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; 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.(noun)

  source: webster1913