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The phrase "a common ancestry" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing shared origins or lineage among individuals, groups, or species.
Example: "The study revealed that the two families have a common ancestry that dates back several centuries."
Alternatives: "shared lineage" or "mutual heritage".
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Most who live here share a common ancestry.
Even now, many of us may not realize that money and funding share a common ancestry.
How did anti-evolution scientists "try to undermine the notion that all species had a common ancestry"?
In The Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin affirmed that all forms of life share a common ancestry.
Or you can compare it with a protein whose structure you already know.That works because proteins come in families that share a common ancestry.
The presence in cephalochordates and vertebrates of a nervous system with segmentally repeated nerves arising from the dorsal hollow nerve cord is suggestive of a common ancestry.
An affable country gentleman, Darwin at first shocked religious Victorian society by suggesting that animals and humans shared a common ancestry.
While sharing a common ancestry with myth, legend, epic poetry, and the novel, history has of course diverged from these forms.
Over the last 15 years geneticists have identified links between the world's Jewish communities that point to a common ancestry as well as a common religion.
Phylogenetic studies revealed a common ancestry of the fungal and bacterial Pk.
However, these results can also imply a common ancestry and thus likely derived from the same source.
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