The phrase
"single ancestor" means that all living beings or a specific group of organisms in a family are descended or come from a common individual in the past.
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Synonyms for individual words can be found below.
«single»
«ancestor»
Sentences with «single ancestor»
- The great apes (man, ape, baboon, chimpanzee, etc.) are all descended form a single ancestor. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
- In fact, each human gene can be traced back to a single ancestor at some point over the last few million years, but different individuals at different times, and this is entirely to be expected statistically. (faith.org.uk)
- While researchers had previously thought that ST258 K. pneumoniae strains spread from a single ancestor, the NIH team showed that the strains arose from at least two different lineages. (sciencedaily.com)
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