natural classification

British  

noun

1. biology classification of organisms according to relationships based on descent from a common ancestor

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Example Sentences

He owed  something to Cuvier, yet he knew how to utilize the work in anatomy offered by Cuvier in making a natural classification.

From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)

I conceive, therefore, that the natural classification of languages is also the natural classification of mankind.

From Critiques and Addresses by Huxley, Thomas Henry

A natural classification of the Vermæ or worms was his first achievement.

From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin

According to this view, the natural classification would eventually be found to stand upon a basis of physiology.

From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions by Romanes, George John

My work was of considerable use to me, when I had to discuss in the 'Origin of Species,' the principles of a natural classification.

From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir