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It's not groups that are the key bit of evidence for common descent, but nested hierarchies.

In all lifeforms known to humankind, be it extant or extinct, the totality of similarities and differences forms a pattern of nested hierarchies - sets within sets within sets, each set having all the defining characteristics of the superset in addition to unique defining characteristics for itself and its subsets.

There is only one testable explanation for such a pattern: common descent.

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