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

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

The idea of transformism is already in germ in the natural classification of organized beings.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

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

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 Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)

But the Darwinian is searching for a natural classification.

From Anthropology by Marett, R. R. (Robert Ranulph)