common descent

collocation in English

meaningsofcommonanddescent

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common
adjective
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/ˈkɒm.ən/us
/ˈkɑː.mən/
the same in a lot of places or for a lot ...
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descent
noun
uk
/dɪˈsent/us
/dɪˈsent/
the state or fact of being related to a particular person or group of people who lived in ...
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(Definition ofcommonanddescentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Medievalists would argue that ethnic identities are constructed primarily through the invention of legends ofcommondescent, often articulated in contexts of political conflict.
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To argue that two species have the same trait bycommondescentis to make a statement about phylogeny, not a statement about evolutionary function.
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That term can be linguistic, based on (inaccurate and pre-scientific) notions ofcommondescentor race, or based on religion.
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It was a morality of organic growth and development, ofcommondescentand collective destiny, a morality of power which recognised that in numbers there is strength.
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These could be created opportunistically when a cleric transmitted the dharma of his or her clan or temple to another cleric, giving them acommondescentline.
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Wilson problematizes, too, the idea of ' nation' pointing out the extent to which, in the eighteenth century, it still retained older resonances that more closely equated withcommondescent.
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It is what we all mean bycommondescent—the notion not of consanguinity, but of being the sort of people who have lived in that territory in generations gone by.
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Each order of dinosaur has slightly differing pelvis bones providing evidence ofcommondescent.
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Ethnicity is defined bycommondescentand maintained by endogamy.
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Chromosome 2 presents very strong evidence in favour of thecommondescentof humans and other apes.
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Older concepts, which were also based at least partly oncommondescent, such as nation and tribe entail a much larger number of groupings.
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Proteins with the same three-dimensional structure need not have identical amino acid sequences; any irrelevant similarity between the sequences is evidence forcommondescent.
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Commondescenttries to account only for the "similarities" between creatures.
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Yet in a very strong sense the explanation ofcommondescentis also trivial.
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Most scientists were convinced of evolution andcommondescentby the end of the 19th century.
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A clan is generally a descent group claimingcommondescentfrom an apical ancestor.
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Analysis of the small differences in the genetic code has also provided support for universalcommondescent.
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He said that disagreements between morphological and molecular phylogenies disprove common ancestry and that textbooks should treat universalcommondescentas an unproven theory.
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In evolutionary theory, species which share an evolutionary ancestor are said to be ofcommondescent.
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Raised by fishermen, she is ofcommondescent.
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