chorology

/ kəˈrɒlədʒɪ /

noun

1. the study of the causal relations between geographical phenomena occurring within a particular region
2. the study of the spatial distribution of organisms

Derived Forms

• choˈrologist, noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of chorology¹

C20: from German Chorologie, from Greek khōros place + -logy

Example Sentences

All the common phenomena of Morphology and Physiology, of Chorology and Œkology, of Ontology and Paleontology, can be explained by the theory of descent, and referred to simple mechanical causes.

From Project Gutenberg

Those who are not satisfied with the synthetic proofs of the theory of evolution which are provided by comparative anatomy, embryology, paleontology, dysteleology, chorology, and classification, may try to refute the analytic proof given in my treatise on the sponge, the outcome of five years of assiduous study.

From Project Gutenberg

The striking and interesting facts of chorology can be explained only by the theory of evolution, and therefore we must count them among the most important of its inductive bases.

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The fourteenth chapter of the "History of Creation" is devoted to the distribution of organisms, their chorology, with the emphatic assertion that "not until Darwin can chorology be spoken of as a separate science, since he supplied the acting causes for the elucidation of the hitherto accumulated mass of facts."

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