Editing Descent (section)

==As a noun==
===Genealogy and inheritance===
* [[Common descent]], concept in evolutionary biology
* [[Kinship]], one of the major concepts of cultural anthropology
**[[Pedigree chart]] or [[family tree]]
**[[Ancestry]]
**[[Lineal descendant]]
**[[Heritage (disambiguation)|Heritage]]
**[[Royal descent]] - lineal descent from a monarch
*[[Phylogenetics]]
**[[Tree diagram (disambiguation)]]
*[[Inheritance]]  (law and property)

===Mathematics===
* [[Infinite descent]], a method going back to Fermat to solve Diophantine equations
* [[Descent (mathematics)]], an idea extending the notion of "gluing" in topology
* [[Hadamard's method of descent]], a technique for solving partial differential equations
* [[Gradient descent]], a first-order optimization algorithm going back to Newton
* Descents in permutations, a classical [[Permutation#Descents|permutation]] statistic in combinatorics

===Other uses===
*[[Descent (aeronautics)]], the decrease of an aircraft in altitude during flight
*[[Descent (font)]], the distance that a typeface descends below the baseline in typography
*[[Katabasis]]