• Common descent
  Common descent
  In evolutionary biology, a group of organisms share common descent if they have a common ancestor. There is strong quantitative support for the theory that all living organisms on Earth are descended from a common ancestor....
  
  , concept in evolutionary biology
• Kinship and descent, one of the major concepts of cultural anthropology
  • Pedigree chart
    Pedigree chart
    A pedigree chart is a diagram that shows the occurrence and appearance or phenotypes of a particular gene or organism and its ancestors from one generation to the next, most commonly humans, show dogs, and race horses....
    
     or family tree
    Family tree
    A family tree, or pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. The more detailed family trees used in medicine, genealogy, and social work are known as genograms.-Family tree representations:...
    
    
  • Ancestry
  • Heritage
• Phylogenetics
  Phylogenetics
  In biology, phylogenetics is the study of evolutionary relatedness among groups of organisms , which is discovered through molecular sequencing data and morphological data matrices...
  
  
  • Tree diagram (disambiguation)
• Inheritance
  Inheritance
  Inheritance is the practice of passing on property, titles, debts, rights and obligations upon the death of an individual. It has long played an important role in human societies...
  
    (law and property)

• Infinite descent
  Infinite descent
  In mathematics, a proof by infinite descent is a particular kind of proof by contradiction which relies on the fact that the natural numbers are well ordered. One typical application is to show that a given equation has no solutions. Assuming a solution exists, one shows that another exists, that...
  
  , a method going back to Fermat to solve Diophantine equations
• Descent (category theory)
  Descent (category theory)
  In mathematics, the idea of descent has come to stand for a very general idea, extending the intuitive idea of 'gluing' in topology. Since the topologists' glue is actually the use of equivalence relations on topological spaces, the theory starts with some ideas on identification.A sophisticated...
  
  , an idea extending the notion of "gluing" in topology
• Hadamard's method of descent
  Hadamard's method of descent
  In mathematics, the method of descent is the term coined by the French mathematician Jacques Hadamard as a method for solving a partial differential equation in several real or complex variables, by regarding it as the specialisation of an equation in more variables, constant in the extra parameters...
  
  , a technique for solving partial differential equations
• Gradient descent
  Gradient descent
  Gradient descent is a first-order optimization algorithm. To find a local minimum of a function using gradient descent, one takes steps proportional to the negative of the gradient of the function at the current point...
  
  , a first-order optimization algorithm going back to Newton

• Descent (aircraft)
  Descent (aircraft)
  A descent during air travel is any portion where an aircraft decreases altitude, and is the opposite of an ascent or climb. Descents are an essential component of an approach to landing...
  
  , the decrease of an aircraft in altitude during flight
• Descent (font), the distance that a typeface descends below the baseline in typography

As a proper name

• The Descent
  The Descent
  The Descent is a 2005 British horror film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film follows six women who, having entered an unmapped cave system, become trapped, and are hunted by subterranean flesh-eating humanoids....
  
  , a 2005 horror film
  • The Descent Part 2, the 2009 sequel to the 2005 film
• Descent (2005 film)
  Descent (2005 film)
  Descent is a 2005 original film on the Sci Fi Channel.-Synopsis:Oil drilling causes the Earth's crust to sink, pushing the magma up at the West Coast, triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that devastate Seattle, Tacoma, and other cities, killing thousands, if not millions of people in the...
  
  , a television film on the Sci-Fi Channel
• Descent (2007 film)
  Descent (2007 film)
  Descent is a 2007 American thriller film directed by Talia Lugacy and starring Rosario Dawson and Chad Faust.-Plot summary:Maya is a college student who is date raped...
  
  , a thriller starring Rosario Dawson

• Descent (video game)
  Descent (video game)
  Descent is a 3D first-person shooter video game developed by Parallax Software and released by Interplay Entertainment Corp. in 1995. The game features six degrees of freedom gameplay and garnered several expansion packs...
  
  , first in a series from Interplay Entertainment
  Interplay Entertainment
  Interplay Entertainment Corporation is an American video game developer and publisher, founded in 1983 as Interplay Productions by Brian Fargo. The company had been a quality developer until they started publishing their own games in 1988, like Neuromancer and Battle Chess. The company was renamed...
  
   and Parallax Software
  Parallax Software
  Parallax Software was a video game developer best known for creating the Descent series of computer games. Parallax Software was started in 1993 by Matt Toschlog and Mike Kulas. After the release of Descent II in 1997, the company was split to form Volition, Inc. in Champaign, Illinois, and...
  
  
• Descent II
  Descent II
  Descent II is a 3D first-person shooter video game noted for popularizing the use of true 3D rendering technology and providing the player with six full degrees of freedom to move and to look around....
  
  , sequel to Descent
• Descent 3, sequel to Descent II
• Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War, a computer game by Volition Inc
• Descent: Journeys in the Dark
  Descent: Journeys in the Dark
  Descent: Journeys in the Dark is a 2 to 5 player high fantasy adventure board game published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2005. Descent was designed and produced by Kevin Wilson. The game is not related to the video game Descent, but rather is based on an improved version of the mechanics of FFG's...
  
  , a 2005 board game by Fantasy Flight Games

• The Descent (novel)
  The Descent (novel)
  The Descent is a 1999 science-fiction/horror novel by American author Jeff Long.-Introduction:The novel follows events surrounding the discovery and exploration of a vast labyrinth of tunnels and passages stretching throughout the sub-surface of the entire world, inhabited by several species of...
  
  , by Jeff Long
• Descent, caving magazine from Wild Places Publishing first published in 1969

• Descent, an album by the band This Burning Effigy
  This Burning Effigy
  This Burning Effigy were an Irish goth band, originally formed in Dublin in 1993, and consisting of members Stephen Carey , Ger Egan , Micheal Cowley , Brian Fallon...
  
  

• "Descent" (The Outer Limits), an episode of the science fiction television series The Outer Limits
• "Descent" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1
• "Descent" (Star Trek: The Next Generation), a two-part episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation