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... 30 KB (3,067 words) - 20:13, 26 March 2024 |
Evidence of common descent of living organisms has been discovered by scientists researching in a variety of disciplines over many decades, demonstrating... 235 KB (27,140 words) - 13:22, 22 March 2024 |
Look up descent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Descent may refer to: Common descent, concept in evolutionary biology Kinship, one of the major concepts... 4 KB (434 words) - 23:54, 24 May 2023 |
Kinship (redirect from Kinship and Descent) patrilineal descent is considered most significant differs from culture to culture. A clan is generally a descent group claiming common descent from an apical... 70 KB (8,549 words) - 16:30, 6 April 2024 |
Monogenism (redirect from Common descent of humans) sometimes monogenesis is the theory of human origins which posits a common descent for all human races. The negation of monogenism is polygenism. This... 12 KB (1,415 words) - 17:21, 1 May 2023 |
Evolution (redirect from Descent with modification) limited set of common morphologies, their fossils do not provide information on their ancestry. More recently, evidence for common descent has come from... 238 KB (24,700 words) - 04:40, 1 April 2024 |
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... 32 KB (3,874 words) - 06:42, 13 April 2024 |
Unilineality (redirect from Unilineal descent) demonstrate their common descent from a known apical ancestor. It is also called the simple unilineal descent. Recent research on the unilineal descent organization... 2 KB (236 words) - 09:10, 17 November 2023 |
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... 23 KB (2,873 words) - 00:23, 30 March 2024 |
current processes, from imperfections in organisms recording historical common descent, and from transitions in the fossil record. Theories of evolution provide... 45 KB (5,245 words) - 17:52, 22 March 2024 |
teach it as fact. Christian fundamentalists reject the evidence of common descent of humans and other animals as demonstrated in modern paleontology,... 163 KB (18,353 words) - 23:54, 11 April 2024 |
Untersuchungen über die Bedeutung der Deszendenztheorie für die Psychologie (section Common descent and psychology) Psychologie (English: Examinations of the Implications of the Theory of Common Descent for Psychology) is a book written by German psychologist, pedagogist... 43 KB (5,421 words) - 09:12, 31 December 2023 |
1809. Charles Darwin more famously proposed the theory of universal common descent through an evolutionary process in his book On the Origin of Species... 61 KB (6,493 words) - 01:27, 20 March 2024 |
is that humans inherited the muscle through common descent, and numerous animals that humans share a common ancestor with (such as the orangutan) still... 11 KB (1,260 words) - 12:41, 24 March 2024 |
biology that studies the evolutionary processes (natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the diversity of life on Earth. It is also... 31 KB (3,423 words) - 07:43, 16 April 2024 |
Intestacy (redirect from Descent and distribution) 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... 13 KB (1,629 words) - 16:04, 4 November 2023 |
Tree of life (biology) (redirect from Tree of descent) 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... 32 KB (3,526 words) - 06:34, 27 April 2024 |
Bird of prey (section Common names) 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... 46 KB (4,771 words) - 17:52, 22 March 2024 |
shown that Sarcodina is not a monophyletic group whose members share common descent. Consequently, amoeboid organisms are no longer classified together... 41 KB (3,651 words) - 12:52, 17 April 2024 |
appeared that a classification should reflect the Darwinian principle of common descent. Tree of life representations became popular in scientific works, with... 69 KB (6,804 words) - 03:00, 15 April 2024 |
Parallel evolution (redirect from Parallel descent) 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... 11 KB (1,166 words) - 07:40, 20 April 2024 |
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... 6 KB (569 words) - 22:18, 31 March 2024 |
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... 61 KB (6,117 words) - 23:35, 22 April 2024 |