ancestor

She arrived a few days before Día de los Muertos, a day of ancestor veneration in Mexican states like Michoacan, Jalisco and Oaxaca.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Humans are apes, but the new findings suggest that an ancestor with feet resembling those of monkeys might still have been capable of climbing in ways comparable to modern apes.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

Reconstructing that ancestor has become an important part of understanding human evolution, including the emergence of walking on two legs.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

That distinction has influenced ideas about whether the human-chimpanzee ancestor should have possessed feet more like those of modern apes or monkeys.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

I still don’t really know who the woman in black is—if she’s my guardian angel, if she’s an ancestor from my past or my future—but I know that she’ll always be with me.

From "Hurricane Child" by Kheryn Callender

I do not have faith in gods the way my ancestors had faith in Zeus.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

And now, be the latest node in a transmission that includes Ka, his parents and grandparents, and the ancestors he never knew, but whose wisdom he inherited.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Grange said it could pave the way for a "long outstanding settlement for the hundreds of years of the most horrific abuse that our African ancestors endured".

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

“What good is defending the historic homeland of our ancestors and demanding that candidates acknowledge its right to exist, if the planet upon which it rests is no longer inhabitable?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Now she belonged to the spirits and would dwell in the land of her ancestors forever.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer