Examples of 'share a common ancestor' in a sentence

Meaning of "share a common ancestor"

share a common ancestor - a phrase used in the context of evolutionary biology to mean that two or more species or organisms have a common biological ancestor from which they have evolved.

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share a common ancestor
This is because they share a common ancestor.
Manatee share a common ancestor with elephants.
Are heterotrophic and share a common ancestor.
You share a common ancestor with it.
Chimps and humans share a common ancestor.
They share a common ancestor and are monophyletic group.
Haplogroups are genetic populations that share a common ancestor.
But they did share a common ancestor with whales.
Homologs refer to proteins that share a common ancestor.
Humans share a common ancestor with other primates.
But they would have to share a common ancestor.
Humans share a common ancestor with other apes.
He began to conclude that species might share a common ancestor.
They share a common ancestor with both us and chimpanzees.
We do not look like we share a common ancestor with them.

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We share a common ancestor but we evolved along a different path.
You and they share a common ancestor.
Gene families are groups of related genes that share a common ancestor.
What if you share a common ancestor.
It is easy to see how the two games might share a common ancestor.
Couples who share a common ancestor.
It is a common theory of evolution that humans and apes share a common ancestor.
The organisms share a common ancestor.
We share a common ancestor at some point with all life on Earth.
Groups of interrelated species that share a common ancestor are called clades.
These primates share a common ancestor with humans who lived four to six million years ago.
Pterosaurs were not dinosaurs but share a common ancestor with them.
It means we share a common ancestor that lived in the past.
This observation supports the idea that chicks and humans share a common ancestor with fish.
We both share a common ancestor.
We are all connected, and we all share a common ancestor.
Chimpanzees and bonobos share a common ancestor that lived about two million years ago.
Polyphyletic, a group of organisms that do not share a common ancestor.
All three also share a common ancestor with the apes.
However, these modern carrots all share a common ancestor.
They share a common ancestor in Abraham.
Not one single fossil showing that life forms share a common ancestor has ever been found.
These clearly share a common ancestor with the common tortoise Greek tortoise.
Humans and Neanderthals share a common ancestor.
Herpesviruses either share a common ancestor with tailed bacteriophages or are a breakaway group from within Caudovirales.
If you go back far enough, humans and reptiles share a common ancestor.
So DNA is revealing we share a common ancestor with the Neanderthals.
In short, the definition of cousins is two people who share a common ancestor.
We share dino DNA because we share a common ancestor in the vertebrate line.
This implies a breakdown in common descent, the hypothesis that all organisms share a common ancestor.
English and German share a common ancestor.
Humans share a common ancestor with various other primates *.
We have no ape ancestors, but we share a common ancestor with the apes.
Pandoraviruses share a common ancestor with Coccolithoviruses within the family Phycodnaviridae.
This is not the case - humans and apes share a common ancestor.

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