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Common descent is the scientific theory that all living organisms on Earth are related and descended from a common ancestor, through a process of evolution over billions of years. This concept is foundational to the field of evolutionary biology and is supported by a wide array of evidence from genetics, paleontology, and comparative anatomy.
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