Yet the maps' variety, their changes in style and in purpose, also reveal the shared origins of items now considered commonplace.

A comparison of American football and rugby union is possible because of the games' shared origins, despite their dissimilarities.

Many archaeologists have criticized the proposed similarities as too insignificant and just as likely to be due to chance as to shared origins.

The mediums of music and writing are completely different (despite the shared musical origins of poetry).

He states that certain anatomical details suggest a shared Oriental origin, followed by a westward diffusion.

In the monuments and squares of older cities and towns are solemn references to shared origins.

The similarity with the traditions of Egyptian New Kingdom dream hermeneutic oracles suggest a shared origin.

There is a common ancestry, which entails that at least a few elements of disparate human traditions go back to our shared origin.

Any thought that two African neighbours with shared tribal, cultural and historical origins could cooperate even better than neighbouring colonial powers was dispelled not long after.

Rule by fiefdoms and aristocracy was widely replaced by national ideologies based on shared origins and culture.