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Do birds and mammals inherit intelligence from a common ancestor?
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What is a similar structure that related species inherit from a common ancestor?
A homologous structure.
Do humans and bats have a common ancestor?
Yes, humans and bats share a common ancestor. Both humans and bats belong to the group of mammals, which evolved from a common ancestor millions of years ago.
What fact implies that Nearly all mammals have seven cervical neck vertebrae?
all mammals descended from a common ancestor.
Nearly all mammals have seven cervicals what does this fact imply?
They are all descended from a common ancestor.
What is the common ancestor that a human and porpoise may have?
It's been estimated that 75% of mammals are now extinct, so it's unlikely that a common ancestor still exists as a modern species. However, if we saw a common ancestor we'd probably say it looked like a shrew.
What evidence suggests that humans and bats have a common ancestor?
For one, both humans and bats are in the class Mamalia, which is reason enough to suggest that they come from a common ancestor. The modern classification system, developed by Linnaeus, and modified by scientists such as Darwin and Lyell, is based of common ancestors. So, all mammals come from a common ancestor. How do we know this? Well, all mammals share a peculiar trait: All mammals are completely indistinguishable at the pre embryonic stage. This proves that bats and humans come from common ancestry.
Did jaws develop independantly in mammals and birds?
No. Both mammals and birds "inherited jaws" from a common reptilian ancestor which ultimately originated in an early fish.
What are the similarities of human and chicken embryo?
Mammals, birds, and reptiles all derive from a single common ancestor.
What is ancestral characters?
An Ancestral Character is a character inherited from a COMMON ancestor. For example the presence of lungs in mammals (an ancestral character) does not indicate that mammals are more closely related to amphibians vs. reptiles, or reptiles vs. birds etc., etc. It is simply a character inherited from a common ancestor.
What type of mammals are closely related to reptiles?
All mammals evolved from a common ancestor, which was the very first mammal. That very first mammal had evolved from reptiles. As such, all mammals are equally related to reptiles.
What is the name of your oldest common ancestor?
We evolved about 500 million years ago from fish that evolved to anphibians then mammals then we evolved to primates
The mammal trait of having fur is an example of a derived character because?
A synapomorphic (derived) character is defined as a trait that multiple taxa and their last common ancestor possess, but that the ancestor of this last common ancestor did not possess. The multiple taxa in this case could be the 29 orders of mammals, all of which have fur. All mammals descend from cynodonts. It is probable that cynodonts were covered in fur. Cynodonts evolved (with various steps in between) from early amniotes, which did not have fur. We do not know when exactly fur appeared in the evolution of mammals.
