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common descent

shared ancestry of organisms from different species
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common descent

Summary

common descent is a theory[1]. It draws 305 Wikipedia views per month (theory category, ranking #45 of 323).[2]

Key Facts

  • common descent's instance of is recorded as theory[3].
  • common descent's subclass of is recorded as ancestor[4].
  • common descent's subclass of is recorded as root node[5].
  • common descent's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01m1k[6].
  • common descent's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[7].
  • common descent's Quora topic ID is recorded as Common-Descent[8].
  • common descent's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 124980797[9].
  • common descent's RationalWiki ID is recorded as Common_descent[10].
  • common descent's KBpedia ID is recorded as DescendingEvent[11].
  • common descent's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C124980797[12].

Why It Matters

common descent draws 305 Wikipedia views per month (theory category, ranking #45 of 323).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Related Entities

Ernst Haeckel

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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