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The 21 pages that link to Common descent, each with the reason it gives.

• Charles DarwinRelated: Darwin used branching ancestry to explain both shared traits and biological diversity.

• HomologyRelated: Homologous traits are evidence that the lineages carrying them share ancestry.

• On the Origin of SpeciesRelated: The book’s branching account of life depends on species sharing ancestors.

• CladeRelated: Shared descent is the ancestry that unites every member of a clade.

• PikaiaRelated: Pikaia's proposed chordate status bears on how the ancestry of vertebrates is reconstructed.

• VestigialityRelated: Similar reduced structures can preserve evidence of shared ancestry.

• The Descent of ManRelated: Darwin argued that humans and other animals share ancestors rather than standing apart from nature.

• Theistic evolutionRelated: Its acceptance distinguishes many theistic-evolution accounts from special-creation views.

• Recapitulation theoryRelated: Shared ancestry explains similarities among embryos without requiring one species to reenact another’s adult form.

• Evolutionary theoryRelated: It explains why similarities among organisms often reflect shared ancestry.

• Karl Ernst von BaerRelated: Embryonic similarities later became evidence used to support this evolutionary idea.

• Parallel evolutionRelated: Shared ancestry is central to distinguishing parallel evolution from convergence.

• History of evolutionary thoughtRelated: It became a unifying claim supported by Darwin's evidence and later biology.

• Simple eyeRelated: Comparing simple eyes tests which visual features are inherited and which evolved independently.