Species of one genus must be descended from a generic ancestral form, genera of one family from a single family Urform, and so on for the higher categories.
Both Amphioxus and the Ascidians would accordingly be descended from fish, instead of fish being evolved from them.
In attempting to estimate the amount of structural difference between allied domestic races, we are soon involved in doubt, from not knowing whether they are descended from one or several parent species.
In the case of strongly marked races of some other domesticated species, there is presumptive or even strong evidence that all are descended from a single wild stock.
However, to return to my history, Offa, descended from Penda in the fifth degree, succeeded Ethelbald.
When we attempt to estimate the amount of structural difference between the domestic races of the same species, we are soon involved in doubt, from not knowing whether they have descended fromone or several parent-species.
Ask, as I have asked, a celebrated raiser of Hereford cattle, whether his cattle might not have descended from long-horns, and he will laugh you to scorn.
THIS family is descended from Roderick, second son of Colin, third son of Murdoch Mackenzie, V.
Baronet of that family, descended from Archibald, fifth Earl of Angus, whose second son, Sir Robert Douglas, succeeded in 1591 to his estates of Glenbervie and Kemnay.
His secretary Antonelli, descended froman old brigand family, who from the time of his stay at Gaeta was his evil demon, predeceased him in A.
The Syrians held it, descended from Syrus, as is the story, the son of Apollo, and Sinope the daughter of Asopus.
He isdescended from an old family of St. Denis, county of Kamouraska.
Upon the maternal side she is descended from the De Villers and the De Lachevrotiere families, both being of the noblest families of France.
The latter represent him as descended from a branch of the ancient kings of Persian, though time and misfortune had gradually reduced his ancestors to the humble station of private citizens.
It was a sufficient crime of Thrasea Priscus to be descended from a family in which the love of liberty seemed an hereditary quality.
Maximin, for that was his name, though born on the territories of the empire, descended from a mixed race of barbarians.
This skilful horticulturist possessed a number of French varieties, differing from each other only in the colour and size of the flowers, all descended from Gandavensis, a well-known old hybrid, said to be descended from G.
In the several breeds of poultry, descended from a single species, differences in the eggs and chickens whilst covered with down, in the plumage at the first and subsequent moults, as well as in the comb and wattles, are all inherited.
The Sebright Bantam is much less prolific than any other breed of fowls, and is descended from a cross between two very distinct breeds, recrossed by a third sub-variety.
The belief that our dogs are descended from wolves, jackals, South American Canidae, and other species, suggests a far more important difficulty.
It has been objected that our domestic dogs cannot be descended fromwolves or jackals, because their periods of gestation are different.
Thus it comes to pass that so many sovereign families throughout Teutondom are said to be descended from Odin.
This, of course, is quite absurd, as man obviously could not be descended from a form of life now living.
We would also find monkeys and apes,--the recessive species--descended from man.
All the organic beings, which have ever lived on the earth, may be descended from some one primordial form.
Lycurgus, published his laws in the Reign of Agesilaus, the son and successor of Doryagus, in the Race of the Kings of Sparta descended from Eurysthenes.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "descended from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
