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• Descend
  ...y]] that all living [[organisms]] on [[Earth]] are descended from a common ancestor. ...g/wiki/Charles_Darwin Charles Darwin] proposed the [[theory]] of universal common descent through an [[evolutionary]] [[process]] in [https://en.wikipedia.or
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• Homologous
  ...its: similarities between [[organisms]] that were not in the last common [[ancestor]] of the taxa being considered but rather [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co ...t a wing) in the last [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_descent common ancestor] of tetrapods. By definition, any homologous trait defines a [https://en.wi
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• Clan
  ...ising 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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• Ancestry
  An '''ancestor''' is a [[parent]] or (recursively) the parent of an ancestor (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent, and so fo ...[[theory]], species which share an evolutionary ancestor are said to be of common [[descent]]. However, this concept of ancestry does not apply to some bacte
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• 87:3 Ancestor Worship
  ...[[worship]] [[inevitable]] since it became the [[connecting]] link between common ghosts and the higher spirits, the evolving gods. The early [[gods]] were s ...he further spread of ghost [[fear]] and [[worship]]. Devotees of the early ancestor-ghost cults even feared to yawn lest a malignant ghost enter their bodies a
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• 70:4 Clans and Tribes
  ...roups]] within the [[tribe]], and they owed their [[existence]] to certain common interests, such as: *1. Tracing [[origin]] back to a common [[ancestor]].
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• Dynasty
  ...ntly viewed and [[legally]] calculated through [[descent]] from a common [[ancestor]] in the [[male]] line. However, men who were descended from extinct dynast
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• 62:1 The Early Lemur Types
  ...fspring of the modern type of lemur, though springing from an [[ancestor]] common to both but long since [[extinct]].
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• Atavism
  French ''atavisme'', from [[Latin]] ''atavus'' [[ancestor]], from ''at''- (probably akin to ''atta'' daddy) + ''avus'' grandfather ...An ''atavus'' is a great-great-great-grandfather or, more generally, an [[ancestor]].
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• Kowtowing
  ...tow to their respective [[parents]], though the standing bow is today more common. In [[extreme]] cases, the kowtow can be used to express profound [[gratitu
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• 2014-01-20-Peace Can Become a Reality
  ...d others. Considering that chimpanzees and human beings come from a common ancestor it is correct to assume that many behaviors have been passed through genera
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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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• Degree
  ...p in a direct line of [[descent]] or in the line of [[ascent]] to a common ancestor
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• 2007-08-31-Missionaries of Old
  ...yet their ancestor worship remained the token religion of the day for the common man.
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• Pharisees
  .../Solomon Solomon], when [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadok Zadok], their ancestor, officiated as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohen_Gadol High Priest].
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• Kenite
  ...known Kenites were [[Heber]], the husband of [[Jael]], and [[Rechab]], the ancestor of the [[Rechabites]].[https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03776b.htm]| ...of Judah]].[[I Samuel]] xxx. 29; ''comp. ib.'' xxvii. 10.) Their eponymous ancestor may have been [[Cain]] (Kain), to whose descendants the [[Jahwist]] in Gene
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• Mammals
  ...tically], Mammalia is defined as all descendants of the most recent common ancestor of monotremes (e.g., echidnas and platypuses) and therian mammals (marsupia
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• Etymology
  ...gnate cognates] in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common [[ancestral]] form in an ancestral language. ...logists may often be able to detect which words derive from their common [[ancestor]] language and which were instead later borrowed from another language.
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• Genealogy
  ...account of the [[descent]] of a [[person]], [[family]], or group from an [[ancestor]] or from older forms ...th societies in Europe often using family history, while genealogy is more common in the [[United States]].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneaology]
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• Human Evolution
  ...natural range of these creatures, they surmised that humans share a common ancestor with other African great apes and that fossils of these ancestors would be ...All of these traits convinced Dart that the Taung baby was a bipedal human ancestor, a transitional form between apes and humans.
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