Sentences with phrase «smaller than its forebears»

Present day Chihuahuas, some times spelled Chiwawa, are far smaller than its forebears.

Not exact matches

For more than a million years their australopithecine predecessors — Lucy and her kind, who walked upright like us yet still possessed the stubby legs, tree - climbing hands and small brains of their ape forebears — had thrived in and around the continent's forests and woodlands.

As populations scale up, the proportion of people killed in battle scales down, suggesting we're no more or less violent than our forebears who lived in smaller societies.