Meanings of common descent in English

It is generally held, however, that the Flat-fishes are of common descent.

Suppose men to be in contact through propinquity or common descent.

They wouldn't be bound to us by patriotism or common descent, or even by religious awe.

All these facts tell in favour of the common descent of man and all other vertebrates.

These prove beyond all doubt the common descent of man and all the rest of the mammals.

Their many striking points of agreement indicate a common descent, and cannot be explained as phenomena of convergence.

The story of a common descent from Adam is wrong, but DNA techniques securely establish the reality of astounding lineages.

But, in any case, the common descent of man and all the other mammals from one stem-form is beyond question.

To understand group-selection we ought first to recognize that normally local populations are largely of common descent, self-perpetuating and potentially immortal.

As a rule, it was a union between families considered as of common descent and owning a certain territory in common.

Family organisation was not overstressed, though ties among persons of common descent were recognised, and the young were generally reared by their parents.

The natural causes which tended to unite the Greeks as a people were a common descent, a common language, and a common religion.

As a fact, this common descent is now accepted by all competent scientists; they have substituted the natural evolution for the supernatural creation of organisms.

Thus the frequency of generalised forms in the older strata seems to me clearly to indicate the common descent with divergence of more recent forms.

This party was in no way akin to me except under that common descent from the old Adam which makes all humanity brothers and sisters.

(2) The presence of vestigial organs in the higher animals supplies another argument for the belief in common descent.