In opening his museum in 1921, Phillips sought to establish a collection that included these «immediate ancestors of the modern art movement» — a tactic that was followed by the founders of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, inaugurated in 1929. (phillips.kimbellart.org)
A new study credits the advent of simple stone tools to slice meat and pound root vegetables, which could have dramatically reduced the time and force needed to chew, thus allowing our more immediate ancestors to evolve the physical features required for speech. (sciencemag.org)
Even if we grant that a clone, reared in different circumstances than its immediate ancestor, might turn out to be quite a different person in some respects, the point of that person's existence would be grounded in our will and desire. (firstthings.com)