• Evidence of common descent of living organisms has been discovered by scientists researching in a variety of disciplines over many decades, demonstrating...
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  • 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...
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    similarities of the skeletons of birds and humans. Comparative anatomy has provided evidence of common descent, and has assisted in the classification of animals...
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    pressure to teach it as fact. Christian fundamentalists reject the evidence of common descent of humans and other animals as demonstrated in modern paleontology...
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    evidence of common descent – evolution – evolutionary arms race – evolutionary capacitance Evolution: of ageing – of the brain – of cetaceans – of complexity...
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    likely to give enhanced survival of the perceiving human's genes. Darwin Awards Evidence of common descent History of evolutionary thought Modern evolutionary...
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  • historical common descent, and from transitions in the fossil record. Theories of evolution provide a provisional explanation for these facts. Each of the words...
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  • ideas of the Renaissance and Enlightenment On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin The eclipse of Darwinism Common descent Evidence of common descent Speciation...
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  • subset of scientism.[non-primary source needed] Alternatives to evolution by natural selection Darwinism Evolution as fact and theory Evidence of common descent...
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    Evolution (redirect from Theory of descent)
    limited set of common morphologies, their fossils do not provide information on their ancestry. More recently, evidence for common descent has come from...
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  • the evidence of common descent. Dawkins believed that opposition to evolution was as strong as ever, despite the overwhelming, and growing, body of evidence...
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  • including the Dadanitic and Taymanitic languages of the northern Hejaz. They are evidence of common descent from a hypothetical ancestor, Proto-Arabic. The...
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    major groups. — Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb Crocoduck Evidence of common descent Missing link Speciation Freeman & Herron 2004, p. 816 Prothero...
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    originated through common descent from a last universal ancestor from which all known species have diverged through the process of evolution. All individuals...
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  • provided just such an alternative: evolution. Besides providing evidence of common descent, he introduced a mechanism to explain it: natural selection. According...
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    similarities, and early artefacts showing shared culture were evidence of evolution through common descent from an ancestral species which was likely to have been...
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    Kinship (redirect from Line of descent)
    anthropology has developed a number of related concepts and terms in the study of kinship, such as descent, descent group, lineage, affinity/affine,...
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    also led to more varieties of coat colors. Evidence of common descent Equus gallicus List of Perissodactyla taxa List of horse breeds Portals:  Horses...
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    Arabic (redirect from History of Arabic)
    languages of the northern Hejaz. These features are evidence of common descent from a hypothetical ancestor, Proto-Arabic. The following features of Proto-Arabic...
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    common ancestor Evidence of common descent – Common ancestor evolutionary evidence Evolutionary grade – Non-monophyletic grouping of organisms united...
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    Iranian toman (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from August 2023)
    32. "...[T]his selection of features does not provide good evidence for common descent" and "we can observe convergence rather than divergence between...
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (category Members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences)
    transmutation of species. Homology, or as Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire called it "analogie", was used by Charles Darwin as strong evidence of common descent and...
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  • evolutionary thought Reaction to Darwin's theory Entropy and life Evidence of common descent Evolutionary argument against naturalism Fine-tuned universe Irreducible...
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  • Pashtun people have diverse origins rather than all sharing a common and singular origin. Descent from the Vedic Aryan Pakhtas (or Pactyans, per Herodotus)...
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    32. "...[T]his selection of features does not provide good evidence for common descent" and "we can observe convergence rather than divergence between...
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  • strong evidence for common descent (homology, universal genetic code, embryology, fossil record.) Genes of all organisms, except bacteria, consist of short...
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    Harrowing of Hell (Latin: Descensus Christi ad Inferos, "the descent of Christ into Hell" or Hades) is the period of time between the Crucifixion of Jesus...
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  • Descent is a 1999 science fiction/horror novel by American author Jeff Long. It describes the discovery and exploration of an extensive labyrinth of tunnels...
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  • sometimes monogenesis is the theory of human origins which posits a common descent for all human races. The negation of monogenism is polygenism. This issue...
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    Intestacy (redirect from Law of descent)
    dispose of property in a will. In most contemporary common-law jurisdictions, the law of intestacy is patterned after the common law of descent. Property...
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