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Most recent common ancestor
In
biology
, the
most recent common ancestor
(
MRCA
) of any set of
organisms
is the most recent individual from which all organisms in a group, for example a
haplogroup
, are directly
descended
. The term is often applied to
human
genealogy
.
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