By way of Edward's daughter, Elizabeth of York, every monarch of England and, subsequently, the United Kingdom, from Henry VIII up to and including Elizabeth II, descended from Sibyl de Neufmarché, as did the various royal sovereigns of Europe who shared a common descent from Mary, Queen of Scots.
ASTs X and Y are considered to be of a common descent if neither is a descendant of the other.
We say that X prunes the branch of the enumeration tree at Y, or simply that X prunes Y, if X and Y are of a common descent, and for every descendant A of Y (including Y), there exists at least one descendant B of X (which can be X itself) such that B c displays A c. If X prunes Y, none of the leaf descendants of Y can be an MXST.
In a notebook, he castigated slave-masters for their separate-species lie; he unquestioningly accepted a common racial parentage and moved from the "common descent" of the human races to the blood-ties of all "suffering" creation.
Comparisons of mtDNA samples, as well as Y chromosome samples, derived from people all over the world point to the common descent of all modern humans from a small population that existed about 150 kya.
"Because of the common descent of all living things, it is often possible to learn a lot about a new DNA sequence by finding out what is known about other sequences that are similar," Altman said.
Therefore, the common descent of species can be eliminated by modern comparative methods, while a strict focus on a single lineage does not require considering problems that are due to the relationship between lineages.
The loss suffered by the genes of the altruist are compensated by genes in the recipient made identical by common descent of the altruist and recipient.
The central prediction that emerges from evolutionary theory is based on the common descent of all life forms.
The image of the common descent of all human beings is, independently of its truth content, very important "in order to maintain the sentiments of brotherly love among us" (RW IV, 18).
