Phrases with «direct ancestor»

A "direct ancestor" refers to someone who is in your family tree and is a parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, and so on, directly above you in your lineage. They are the people from whom you directly descend through a continuous bloodline. Full definition

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Sentences with «direct ancestor»

Yet there's some logic in looking to football's direct ancestor for answers. (sbnation.com)
Most analyses of primate evolution over the past two decades have concluded that adapiforms are strepsirrhines, and not direct ancestors of modern humans. (sciencedaily.com)
But during the period of human evolution [since the appearance of our first direct ancestors in Africa], there were actually very pronounced fluctuations between warm and cool, between moist and arid. (discovermagazine.com)
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