natural classification

noun

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

Example Sentences

To metamorphosis he only allowed a logical value, as explaining the natural classification; the only real, existent metamorphosis he saw in the development of the individual from its embryonic stage.

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Cuvier, Lamarck, Say, and even our own countrymen, Dr. Leach and Montague, have all contributed, more or less, to form a mass of information which it is full time should be employed as the basis of natural classification.

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KATHERINE’S.here is a large number of bizarre works which defy natural classification, and though in many cases they are a branch of the compound order of figures, yet they are frequently well defined as non-descripts.

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In 1798 was published his first separate work, the Tableau �l�mentaire de l’histoire naturelle des animaux, which was an abridgment of his course of lectures at the �cole du Panth�on, and may be regarded as the foundation and first and general statement of his natural classification of the animal kingdom.

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It is unnecessary to insist on the purely speculative character of the conclusions to be reached in this way, so long as they cannot be checked by the results of palaeontology, but, when this is recognized, such speculation is not only legitimate but necessary as a basis on which to build a natural classification.

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