The phrase "share a common origin" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe two or more things that have a shared point of origin. For example: Many of the languages spoken in Europe share a common origin.
One of the most fundamental concepts of the theory of evolution since it was developed by Charles Darwin is that species share a common origin —commonality of descent from a single ancestor and have subsequently diverged through time.
The languages of these people are closely related, and their cultures share a common origin.
The similarity between ELDMR and CDMR response dynamics show that the two phenomena share a common origin.
To James Nicola, the artistic director of New York Theater Workshop, the plays are a reminder that most Americans share a common origin story.
To investigate whether potency and insolubility share a common origin, we examined the structural and thermodynamic properties of telaprevir, a sparingly soluble inhibitor of hepatitis C virus protease.
All share a common origin myth and ancestor (Si Raja Batak), have similar kinship and marriage customs, employ a common language and script, and emphasize certain ritual practices.
In spite of this variety, the reefs share a common origin: each has been formed, over millions of years, from the skeletons and skeletal waste of a mass of living marine organisms.
Because of the many longitudinal veins in the wings of these forms, some believe they share a common origin with cockroaches, which have wings that exhibit a similar vein pattern.
The 24 samples showing the same primer binding site mutation at the Amelogenin locus were subjected to X-STR analysis in order to assess whether they could share a common origin, which appeared not to be the case.
We investigated whether cells within a metaplastic gland share a common origin, whether glands clonally expand by fission, and determine if such metaplastic glands are genetically related to the associated dysplasia.
Domains derived from streptococcal protein G and protein PAB from Finegoldia magna, which share a common origin and therefore represent an interesting evolutionary system, have been thoroughly studied structurally and functionally.
