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common descent
(redirected from Shared ancestry)

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See: kinship, relation


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A shared ancestry of upright walking also explains why orangutans' feet resemble people's feet more than they resemble the feet of chimps and gorillas, despite a closer evolutionary link between people and the latter apes, comments anthropologist Bernard Wood of George Washington University in Washington, D.
As I mentioned, men of African descent have the highest incidence in the world, which suggests some interesting speculation about our shared ancestry.
They have a special attachment to their land and territories, a shared ancestry and right to self-determination, their own language, culture, spirituality and knowledge, their own political, economic, social and cultural institutions, and a form of customary law and governance.
 
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