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• Descend
  ...b," from PIE base *skand- "jump." Sense of "[[origin]]ate from" is c.1375. Descent is attested from c.1330; descendant "offspring" is from 1600. ...[[theory]] that all living [[organisms]] on [[Earth]] are descended from a common ancestor.
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• Clan
  ...nds comprising a number of households whose heads claim [[descent]] from a common [[ancestor]] :b : a [[group]] of people tracing descent from a common ancestor : [[family]]
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• Dynasty
  *1: a [[succession]] of rulers of the same line of [[descent]] ...predominantly viewed and [[legally]] calculated through [[descent]] from a common [[ancestor]] in the [[male]] line. However, men who were descended from ext
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• Avatar
  [[Sanskrit]] ''avatāraḥ'' descent, from ''avatarati'' he [[descends]], from ''ava''- away + ''tarati'' he cro ...ia.org/wiki/Mercy_Oduyoye Mercy Oduyoye], H. M. Vroom, and Noel Sheth, the common translation "[[incarnation]]" is somewhat misleading as the concept of an a
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• Blood
  :c : [[relationship]] by descent from a common [[ancestor]] : kinship :d : [[persons]] related through common descent : kindred
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• Ancestry
  ...a [[person]] is descended and who is usually more remote in the line of [[descent]] than a grandparent ...], species which share an evolutionary ancestor are said to be of common [[descent]]. However, this concept of ancestry does not apply to some bacteria and ot
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• Genealogy
  *1: an account of the [[descent]] of a [[person]], [[family]], or group from an [[ancestor]] or from older *2: regular descent of a person, family, or group of [[organisms]] from a progenitor or older f
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• Affinity
  ...logical]] groups involving resemblance in structural plan and indicating a common [[origin]] ...tural_history natural history] – refers to resemblance suggesting a common descent, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenetics phylogenetic] relationship, o
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• Zoology
  ...he branch of [[biology]] concerned with the study of [[animals]]. The most common pronunciation of "zoology" is zoʊˈɑləʤɪ/; however, an alternative pro # The common [[genetics|genetic]] and developmental mechanisms of animals and plants is
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• Tree of Life
  *4. a [[metaphor]] for common [[descent]] in the evolutionary sense.
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• Degree
  *3 : a step in a direct line of [[descent]] or in the line of [[ascent]] to a common ancestor
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• Mammals
  ...ylogenetically], Mammalia is defined as all descendants of the most recent common ancestor of monotremes (e.g., echidnas and platypuses) and therian mammals The mammalian line of [[descent]] diverged from an amniote line at the end of the [https://en.wikipedia.org
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• Totem
  :b : a [[family]] or [[clan]] identified by a common totemic object ...pport larger [[groups]] than the [[individual]] [[person]]. In kinship and descent, if the apical [[ancestor]] of a clan is nonhuman, it is called a totem. [[
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• Biology
  ...volution]] and that all lifeforms known have a common origin (see [[Common descent]]). This has led to the striking similarity of units and processes discusse ...c code]] as definitive evidence in favor of the theory of universal common descent (UCD) for all [[bacterium|bacteria]], [[archaea]], and [[eukaryote]]s (see:
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• Jim Wilson
  '''Jim Wilson''' was born in the state of Oklahoma, of [[Choctow]] and Irish descent, in the month of August 1946. Childhood years were mostly spent in the smal ...f the world, this album creates an ambient trance dance excursion into the common hope of all peoples.
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• Tribe
  *2 : a [[group]] of [[persons]] having a common [[character]], occupation, or interest ...ties]] organized largely on the basis of [[kinship]], especially corporate descent groups (see clan and kinship).
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• Cultural Formation
  ...ntity, and usually a common origin, in the sense of ancestry, parentage or descent.
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• 65:2 The Evolutionary Panorama
  ...and the fourth, the [[ancestors]] of [[mammals]] and the direct line of [[descent]] of the [[human]] [[species]]. But though long departed, the massiveness o ...oped]] rapidly and in many [[different]] ways, not only giving rise to the common modern varieties but also evolving into [[marine]] [[types]], such as [http
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• Names
  ...the proper name of [[God]] in [[Hebrew]] writing or speech, as well as the common understanding in ancient [[magic]] that magical [[ritual]]s had to be carri ...neutrality or corruption of a name with the passage of [[time]]. This is a common [[technique]] used by [[science fiction]] and fantasy writers who may also
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• Human Evolution
  ...Nature''. By the time Darwin published his own book on the subject, ''The Descent of Man'', it was already a well-known interpretation of his theory, and the ...on the natural range of these creatures, they surmised that humans share a common ancestor with other African great apes and that fossils of these ancestors
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