Concept

Common descent

Overview

shared ancestry of organisms from different species

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Common descent

• Elliott Sober

Related ideas

• Fossil
• Animal
• Greenland
• Immanuel Kant
• Embryology
• Life
• Mathematician
• Pierre Louis Maupertuis
• Natural selection
• Scientific American
• On the Origin of Species
• The New York Times
• Scientific community
• TalkOrigins Archive
• Evolutionary biology
• Gene
• Nature (journal)
• Critique of Judgment
• DNA
• Charles Darwin
• Earth
• Evolution
• Erasmus Darwin
• Chirality (chemistry)

Place in the tradition

Part of Elliott Sober.

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