shared traits

• commonWidespread and unremarkable
• similaritiesShared characteristics between things
• characteristicsDistinguishing features or qualities
• kinshipState of being related
• bondsTies that unite

bloodline · heritage · ancestry · DNA · genes · resemblance · likeness · overlap · connection · affinity · family · tribe · patterns · fingerprints · roots · mirror · echo · threads

• connectionslink, links, connect, connection, tie
• ontologyontology, being, existence, becoming, universals