Today, X2 is the most common ancient haplotype in modern horses.
The data were assessed in three steps; comparing modern (TbD1-) against ancient (TbD1+) lineages, comparing EAI and Euro-American (Gagneux), respectively, against Indo-Oceanic (ancient), as well as comparing the most common modern spoligotypes, CAS_KILI and LAM11_ZWE, against the most common ancient spoligotype, EAI5.
We suggest that trait losses will usually far outnumber gains of most common and ancient traits, such as eyes, wings and other limbs, and sex.
One can trace, for example, evolutionary relations between the most common and ancient functions and those that emerged later.
Many of the most common types of ancient coins existed (and still do exist) in great quantities, saturating the market and creating very low prices for these types.
To simplify that task a group of researchers from Germany and Italy, working as part of a European robotics programme called DEXMART, has borrowed an idea from ancient catapult-makers.The most common way of moving a robot's hands is with electric motors.
Since ancient times the most common method of preserving fruits and vegetables, as well as meat and fish, has been sun drying.
Currently, the most common application of these techniques in ancient DNA research is direct shot-gun sequencing of random DNA fragments extracted from a fossil (Green et al, 2006; Poinar et al, 2006; Stiller et al, 2006; Miller et al, 2008).
For example, one of the most common modern cravings involves a food that ancient hominids never knew and which fulfills no nutritional requirement: chocolate 102.
Throughout the ancient world, one of the most common uses of terra-cotta was for building-brick, roof tiles, and sarcophagi, the last often decorated with paintings.
In ancient Korea, grave site disputes were the most common cause of lawsuits.
