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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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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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...
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Look up descent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Descent may refer to: Common descent, concept in evolutionary biology Kinship, one of the major concepts...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1809. Charles Darwin more famously proposed the theory of universal common descent through an evolutionary process in his book On the Origin of Species...
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