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Bad White [126]
3 years ago
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What is a common ancestor?

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labwork [276]3 years ago
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Common<span> descent describes how in evolutionary biology a group of organisms share a most recent </span>common ancestor<span>. There is evidence of </span>common <span>descent that all life on Earth is descended from the last universal </span>common ancestor.
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