Common descent is a concept in evolutionary biology applicable when one species is the ancestor of two or more species later in time. According to modern...

Evidence of common descent of living organisms has been discovered by scientists researching in a variety of disciplines over many decades, demonstrating...

Look up descent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Descent may refer to: Common descent, concept in evolutionary biology Kinship, one of the major concepts...

sometimes monogenesis is the theory of human origins which posits a common descent for all humans. The negation of monogenism is polygenism. This issue...

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is a book by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871, which applies evolutionary...

demonstrate their common descent from a known apical ancestor. It is also called the simple unilineal descent. Recent research on the unilineal descent organization...

1809. Charles Darwin more famously proposed the theory of universal common descent through an evolutionary process in his book On the Origin of Species...

the term for them did not yet exist. He listed a number of them in The Descent of Man, including the muscles of the ear, wisdom teeth, the appendix, the...

patrilineal descent is considered most significant differs from culture to culture. A clan is generally a descent group claiming common descent from an apical...

limited set of common morphologies, their fossils do not provide information on their ancestry. More recently, evidence for common descent has come from...

book presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. Darwin included evidence that...

Farias, Farias (2020). From FUCA To LUCA: A Theoretical Analysis on the Common Descent of Gene Families. doi:10.31080/ASMI.2020.03.0494 (inactive 1 November...

ætt/ätt (pronounced [ˈæːtː] in Old Norse) was a social group based on common descent, equivalent to a clan. In the absence of a police force, the clan was...

current processes, from imperfections in organisms recording historical common descent, and from transitions in the fossil record. Theories of evolution provide...

genealogy. The time to the genealogical MRCA (most recent common ancestor by any line of descent) of all living humans cannot be traced genetically because...

teach it as fact. Christian fundamentalists reject the evidence of common descent of humans and other animals as demonstrated in modern paleontology,...

organisms, all life on Earth is assumed to have originated through common descent from a last universal ancestor from which all known species have diverged...

a will. In most contemporary common-law jurisdictions, the law of intestacy is patterned after the common law of descent. Property goes first or in major...

that studies the evolutionary processes such as natural selection, common descent, and speciation that produced the diversity of life on Earth. In the...

skeletons of birds and humans. Comparative anatomy has provided evidence of common descent, and has assisted in the classification of animals. The first specifically...

Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, last common descent from Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, further divided into: Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, last common descent from Francis...

united by actual or perceived kinship and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, a clan may claim descent from a founding member or apical ancestor...

now generally agreed that even the Altaic languages do not share a common descent: the similarities between Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic are better explained...

is that humans inherited the muscle through common descent, and numerous animals that humans share a common ancestor with (such as the orangutan) still...

creationists also employ the concept, rejecting the fact of universal common descent while not necessarily accepting a literal interpretation of a global...

mousebird relatives (Sandcoleidae), and Messelasturidae indicating possible common descent. Some Enantiornithes also had such talons, indicating possible convergent...

anatomically modern humans Monogenism, a theory of human origins positing a common descent for all humans, debated in the 19th-century, gave way to Recent African...

believed in the transmutation of life forms, but he did not believe in common descent; instead he believed that life developed in parallel lineages (repeated...

in a realm do not necessarily share a common ancestor based on common descent nor do the realms share a common ancestor. Instead, realms group viruses...

they considered themselves kin with other Irmino tribes and claimed common descent from an ancestor called Mannus. During the early Roman Empire under...