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 human races. The negation of monogenism is polygenism. This...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Psychologie (English: Examinations of the Implications of the Theory of Common Descent for Psychology) is a book written by German psychologist, pedagogist...

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...

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

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

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...

biology that studies the evolutionary processes (natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the diversity of life on Earth. It is also...

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

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

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...

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...

shown that Sarcodina is not a monophyletic group whose members share common descent. Consequently, amoeboid organisms are no longer classified together...

cases, and common descent in others. The term raptor is derived from the Latin word rapio, meaning "to seize or take by force". The common names for various...

appeared that a classification should reflect the Darwinian principle of common descent. Tree of life representations became popular in scientific works, with...

parallel evolution are unclear in practice, so that arbitrary diagnosis is common. When two species share a trait, evolution is defined as parallel if the...

Bilateral descent is a system of family lineage in which the relatives on the mother's side and father's side are equally important for emotional ties...

Descent is a first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Parallax Software and released by Interplay Productions in 1995 for MS-DOS, and later for Macintosh...

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

categories and living forms as malleable—even suggesting the possibility of common descent. Serious evolutionary thinking originated with the works of Jean-Baptiste...