ancestor

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Through an artistic probing of form, perhaps reflective of his ancestors’ Talmudic dialectic, he questioned traditional pieties and challenged an existing order.

From The Wall Street Journal

We often wonder if our ancestors felt as we do, or if their inner lives belong to a foreign country where we can’t go.

From The Wall Street Journal

Among this alien cast were the early ancestors of gnathostomes, or jawed vertebrates, which were still rare and unremarkable at the time.

From Science Daily

Based on the limited data currently available, the study suggests that circoviruses may have been infecting the ancestors of modern cetaceans early in their evolutionary history.

From Science Daily

Their findings suggest the specimen may not belong to any known human ancestor species and could represent an entirely new one.

From Science Daily