most recent common ancestor

most recent individual from which all organisms in a group are directly descended

Class type of: ancestor Q1052390

Facts

3 properties

Instance of: source type
Subclass of: ancestor^[2]
Different from: lowest common ancestor^[3]

🏷️ Also known as

en most recent common ancestor en MRCA en concestor en last common ancestor en LCA ar أحدث سلف مشترك cs poslední společný předek el Παγκόσμιος κοινός πρόγονος es ACMR es ancestro común más reciente fa جدیدترین جد مشترک fa جدیدترین جد مشترکِ fa جدیدترین نیای مشترک fa نزدیک‌ترین نیای مشترک fr dernier ancetre commun fr dernier ancêtre commun fr plus recent ancetre commun fr plus récent ancêtre commun he אב קדמון משותף he האב הקדמון המשותף

🔖 Identifiers · 6

OpenAlex ID: C197583594
Described at URL: isogg.org
Freebase ID: /m/04050c
KBpedia ID: LastCommonAncestor
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued): 197583594
Topic's main category: Category:Most recent common ancestors

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🔗 Connections

Examples 5

last universal common ancestor, Y-chromosomal Adam, Chimpanzee–human last common ancestor, Y-chromosomal Aaron, Gibbon–human last common ancestor

Different from 1

lowest common ancestor

Subclass of 1

ancestor

Subtypes 1

mitochondrial Eve

Topic's main category 1

Category:Most recent common ancestors

← Category's main topic 1

Category:Most recent common ancestors

← Different from 1

lowest common ancestor

← Has characteristic 1

monophyly

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Summary

most recent common ancestor is a source type^[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ most recent common ancestor is an instance of source type (Q112234259) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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@misc{4ortxyz_most-recent-common-ancestor_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{most recent common ancestor}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/most-recent-common-ancestor}, note = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}}

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