We shall make use of it later on for our monophyletic theory of descent--the hypothesis of a common descent of man and all the metazoa from the gastraea.
We must infer from it a close blood-relationship of man and the anthropomorphic apes--a common descent of them from one and the same extinct group of lower apes.
Social units based on marriage or a common descent, p.
It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem.
The name itself was the evidence of a common descent, and conclusive, except as it was liable to interruption through the adoption of strangers in blood in the previous history of the gens.
The family here described appears to be a gens, analogous to the Roman in the time of Romulus; but whether it was reintegrated, with other gentes of common descent, in a phratry does not appear.
Where several pueblos were seated near each other on the same stream, the people were usually of common descent, and either under a tribal or confederate government.
Present day structure was interpreted in the light of past history; the common element in organic form was seen to be due to common descent; the existence of vestigial and non-functional organs was no longer a riddle.
Recapitulation Why do we wish to reject the Theory of Common Descent?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "common descent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
