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What is a common ancestor?

What is a common ancestor? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An ancestor that two or more descendants have in common.
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There are two main types, the dome heads and the horned dinosaurs, which evolved from a common ancestor during the early Cretaceous.
They argued that the simplest interpretation of this gap was a single-insertion event in a common ancestor shared solely by animals and fungi.
It is generally accepted that all multicellular animals have evolved from a common ancestor, which itself evolved from a single-celled organism.
It seems likely that the common ancestor of all three modern families was some kind of amphibious hyracoid.
But understanding of how these beetles live, and how they evolved from a common ancestor, makes them less mysterious.
Fossil records show that millions of years ago, cows and pigs shared a common ancestor, an animal that looked more pig than cow.

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