common descent

It is based on the evidence that all living things are related by common descent.

Johnson rejects common descent and does not take a position on the age of the Earth.

Culture and common descent provide the main claims for national differences, but other criteria have also been used.

Many of them claim a partial common descent to the Jewish people.

However, Lamarck did not believe in common descent of all life.

But what if common descent is taken to mean the same phylum or order?

But those differences have not fundamentally changed scientists' view of evolution or common descent.

Evidence for common descent may be found in traits shared between all living organisms.

It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem.

Analysis of the small differences in the genetic code has also provided support for universal common descent.

A strong and direct evidence for common descent comes from vestigial structures.

Evidence from molecular biology in recent years has supported the idea that all life is related by common descent.

All creatures are united in a common existence, a common descent.

He put a strong case for common descent, and at the end of the book concluded that:

All life forms have descended with modifications from ancestors in a process of common descent.

The term existed before 1859, but got its modern meaning after Darwin established the idea of common descent.

The Kachhis form a part of a wider community that claims a common descent.

More recently, evidence for common descent has come from the study of biochemical similarities between organisms.

Biology: the common descent of all life by evolution.

The entire crew followed her and fitted their cables through the assembly so they would have a new, common descent point.

In this quarrel they will ignore their common descent from Ibrahim.

The title is a pun on the principle of biology known as common descent.

The examples shown below provide strong evidence for common descent and are only a small fraction of the instances observed.

This is in opposition to common descent which is accepted by most scientists.

On such grounds Darwin had decided, by that spring, for transmutation and common descent.