Ancestor refers to a person from whom you directly come, like your parent's parent. They are your family members who lived before you and are part of your family history.
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For at least 10 million years, bacteria have been handed down from the common
ancestor of humans and African apes.
Cats evolved
from ancestors that lived in the desert, which means that they don't have a high thirst drive.
People with recent
ancestors in common will have many of the same mutations.
All our
human ancestors ate animal fats and saturated fats and cholesterol in abundance.
A vast majority, however, live on
as ancestors to many favorite modern breeds.
Dogs of same breed have similar characteristics of appearance and behavior, primarily because they come from a select set of
ancestors who had the same characteristics.
The temple was considered to be a sacred space for hundreds of years, where offerings and ceremonies
for ancestors as well as important social activities and meetings took place.
Using that data, the researchers built a spider family tree that showed which species were most closely related and how long ago their most recent common
ancestor lived.
These are considered myths - mostly believed
by ancestors, and these beliefs are not scientifically proven but one thing is reliable and certain that the baby hears the mother's voice.
The cat's
ancestors came from a desert environment and relied on getting adequate amounts of water in the food they ate.
The gene responsible for the new strain's salt tolerance, taken from an
ancient ancestor of modern wheat, may help other crops.
Dogs evolved from
wild ancestors who had to compete for food, nesting sites and mates to survive.
Big noses tend to be found in people
whose ancestors evolved in tropical climates, where a large nasal opening helps cool the body.
I am participating in the ritual of creation that my ancient
ancestors knew.
Our primitive
ancestors used those sorts of things to solve problems on how to get food, mate, defend, etc..
Remember that our African
ancestors evolved with large game animals, which means that these animals were not easy prey to bring down.
The ages at
which ancestors died and their cause of death would be very useful.
They analyzed genetic differences between modern species and the limits placed on the age of their
shared ancestors by available fossil evidence.
Researchers at the symposium proposed that something similar happened as human
ancestors began to live in closer quarters, relying more on each other and on wider social networks to survive.
These people primarily eat vegetables, greens, legumes, and grains, including wheat or other grains, as did our
own ancestors in most cultures on most continents.
The sad truth is that all life on earth shares common
ancestors at some point.
This is even higher for dogs, whose
wolf ancestors never drank dairy milk.
This means that they are all, going back many generations, related, through the
same ancestor in which the mutation occurred many centuries ago.
Raw diets are meant to mimic the diet of a dog's
ancestors more accurately, with fewer filler carbohydrates.
It's not like our cave - woman
ancestors took their newborn babies and let them sleep on a rock in some other wing of the cave for the wolves to eat, right?
She believes her grandmother and
other ancestors provide a living presence in her paintings, adding vision and meaning to that of the viewer.
A recent study claims all three arose from a
single ancestor about 9 million years ago.
DNA analysis and new archaeological finds are allowing scientists to more accurately recreate what our early
ancestors looked like.
On top of that, you don't seem to know the difference
between ancestors and descendants.
Instead, they were tweaks in the activity of existing genes that we shared with our
immediate ancestors.
Our prehistoric
ancestors saw red as the color of fire and blood — energy and primal life forces — and most of red's symbolism today arises from its powerful associations in the past.
They developed a novel method for the reconstruction of protein networks of extinct
evolutionary ancestors from the genomes and networks of present - day species.
But this nice example of adaptive radiation — a single
ancestor giving rise to an array of species all exploiting slightly different environmental niches — has been largely overlooked by biologists before now.
Then we learned that creatures with no common
ancestor also shared similar features.
Use family photos and a globe or map to talk about where your child's
ancestors once lived, what they looked like, what language they spoke, and so on.