natural classification

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noun

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

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natural classification

We can see why characters derived from the embryo should be of equal importance with those derived from the adult, for a natural classification of course includes all ages.

From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Our luminous classifier then triumphantly winds up:—"Having now demonstrated, in one of the very lowest groups of quadrupeds, the validity of those principles of natural classification we have so often illustrated," &c.

From Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. by George Vasey

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

From Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley

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 Edwin Emerson

The natural classification of the more important of the Parisian theatres, about fifteen in number, is under four heads: opera—tragedy, comedy, and drama—vaudeville—melodrama.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various