Similarities which have no adaptive relevance cannot be explained by convergent evolution, and therefore they provide compelling support for the theory of universal common descent.

Similarities between Sanskrit and European languages were first noted in the early 16th century and led to speculation of a common ancestor language from which all these descended.

Similarities between the Ryukyuan and Japanese languages suggests a common origin in the language of immigrants from continental Asia to the archipelago.

Similarities between Semitic languages ( including Hebrew and Arabic ) and their differences with those spoken by other adjacent people confirm the common origin of Hebrews and Arabs among other Semitic nations.

Similarities with the Britannias rested with the frames, tenders and running gear, allowing easy standardisation of parts common with other classes.

Similarities to cloisters in later court designs could either be coincidence, or intentional innovations.

Similarities can be seen along the first two rows ; the appearance of specialized characters in each species can be seen in the columns and a diagonal interpretation leads one to Haeckel ’ s idea of recapitulation.

Similarities between the two signals are automatically removed at the end of the transmission path when one signal is subtracted from the other.

Similarities between Gaelic football and Australian rules football have allowed the development of international rules football, a hybrid sport, and a series of Test matches has been held annually since 1998, with the exception of the cancelled 2007 edition.

Similarities with an Italdesign concept car which debuted in 1990, the Jaguar Kensington, led some observers to suggest that the GS 300 was derived from its design, but the firm has stated that the GS 300 was developed earlier.

Similarities to the works of other writers who faced the Great War are seen in The Hobbit, including portraying warfare as anti-pastoral: in " The Desolation of Smaug ", both the area under the influence of Smaug before his demise and the setting for The Battle of the Five Armies later are described as barren, damaged landscapes.

# Similarities were blurred by the fact that proponents of wage labor won the American Civil War, in which they competed for legitimacy with defenders of chattel slavery.

Similarities between pottery among different sites is a trait commonly looked for by archaeologists.

* " Similarities and Differences Between Family Group Conferencing and Victim-Offender Mediation ", Family Group Conferencing: Implications for Crime Victims, Mark S. Umbreit, Ph. D., Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking ( formerly Center for Restorative Justice & Mediation ), School of Social Work, University of Minnesota St. Paul, Minnesota, Apr.

Similarities between Li ' l Abner and the early Mad include the incongruous use of mock-Yiddish slang terms, the nose-thumbing disdain for pop culture icons, the rampant black humor, the dearth of sentiment and the broad visual styling.

Similarities between myxozoan polar capsules and cnidarian nematocysts had been drawn for a long time, but were generally assumed to be the result of convergent evolution.

Similarities ( both Tinasky and Pynchon worked for Boeing ) were easy to play up, and discrepancies ( Tinasky worked for Boeing ten years before Pynchon ) just as easy to play down.

Similarities can be seen in the artwork for Alternative TV and early Psychic TV releases, with a recurring pastiche on the ' as seen on TV ' marketing style.

Similarities between lower-order factors for psychoticism and the Facet ( psychology ) | facets of openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness ( from Matthews, Deary & Whiteman, 2003 )

# Evaluation: Similarities and differences in the compared properties are evaluated and this determines which ones are valuable for a conclusion.

Similarities between the language and circumstances of the male protagonist of The Wanderer, for example, and the protagonist of the Wife's Lament have led other critics to argue, even more radically, that the protagonist of the poem ( to which the attribution of the title " the wife's lament " is wholly apocryphal and fairly recent ) may in fact be male.

Similarities to other languages in the Philippines includes the presence of the glottal stop in the pronunciation of words.

Similarities with Nintendo's F-Zero include the ability to boost the speed of the vehicles, the use of the L and R buttons to make sharper turns, and the possibility of damaging vehicles by running into walls, hazards, or other vehicles ; falling damage is also possible.

Similarities in these properties between S. hominis and several other species suggest there is a close relationship between S. hominis and S. epidermidis, S. haemolyticus, and S. warneri.

Similarities include claims by Okada and other founders of Shinshūkyō:

Similarities to the approach which I have described are evident in the prompt establishment of a helping relationship, quick appraisal of key issues, and the immediate mobilization of treatment plans as the essential dynamics in helping to further the ego's coping efforts in dealing with the interplay of inner and outer stresses.

Similarities can be encoded by only storing differences between frames, or by using perceptual features of human vision.

Similarities include the prince's feigned madness, his accidental killing of the king's counsellor in his mother's bedroom, and the eventual slaying of his uncle.

Similarities can be found in a shared history of colonial domination and the achievement of independence in the same century.

He set out his ideas in the second edition of Of Pandas and People published in 1993, extensively revising Chapter 6 Biochemical Similarities with new sections on the complex mechanism of blood clotting and on the origin of proteins.

Similarities between jackals and coyotes led Lorenz Oken, in 1816, in the third volume of his Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte, to place these species into a new separate genus, Thos, after the classical Greek word " jackal ", but his theory had little immediate impact on taxonomy at the time.

Similarities have been noted also with the story of Ishtar's or Inanna's descent into the underworld, Ishtar and Inanna being associated with the planet Venus.

Similarities to Ringworld have been noted in the game, and Niven was asked ( but declined ) to write the first novel based on the series.

Similarities among the physical remains and the extreme size of both the great white and C. megalodon led many scientists to believe these sharks were closely related, and the name Carcharodon megalodon was applied to the latter.

Similarities between wage labor and slavery were noted in ancient Rome by Cicero, while the pervasive practice of voluntary slavery in medieval Russia indicates the previous historical coexistence of slavery and voluntary choice.

Similarities between symmetrical objects increase the likelihood that objects will be grouped to form a combined symmetrical object.

Similarities include the main character, Frank Gallagher getting grit in his eye from a bus, being caught by a friend of his wife, and the tearful departure.

Similarities can be found in the battle between Thor and Jormungand from Norse myths, as well as ( perhaps ) an incident in the Irish Metrical Dindsenchas in which the Dagda fights a giant octopus.

Similarities to Goethe's Faust include the classic tale of a man who sold his soul to the Devil, the same Mephisto wagering with an angel to corrupt the soul of Faust, the plague sent by Mephisto on Faust's small town, and the familiar cliffhanger-Faust unable to find a cure and therefore turning to Mephisto, renouncing God, the angel and science alike.

Similarities exist with the patron deity of the K ' iche ' Maya as described in the Popol Vuh.

Similarities have been noted between the character and Evans ' work habits, mannerisms, quirks, clothing style, hairstyle, and large, square-framed eyeglasses ; in fact, the real Evans is said to have joked, " I'm magnificent in this film.

Similarities between Kama and Cupid, Vishwakarma and Hephaestus and Indra and Zeus do lead many to hastily conclude that Hindu mythology is similar to Greek mythology.