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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'ancestor for' is not correct in written English
The correct phrase is either 'ancestor of' or 'ancestor to'. For example: My great-grandfather was an ancestor of mine. My great-grandfather was an ancestor to me.
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The common ancestor for all heritage breeds is the wild turkey, native to these shores.
Until now we have not had a very perfect fossil ancestor for the Old World monkeys and apes".
"And therefore," he went on, "the ancestor for all life on Earth may be a cell on Mars".
While Gregor was at school, in Slovenia, he also became interested in discovering the family's roots, researching in particular, a revolutionary ancestor for whom he was named.
It was fine for Muslims to believe there were dinosaurs, speciation among hominids and even a common ancestor for all animals on Earth – except for one exception – mankind.
A student who was white with a distant American Indian ancestor, for instance, would most likely have identified himself as white.
The investigators estimated that the common ancestor for the Near Eastern wildcat subspecies (F. s. lybica) and domestic cats lived approximately 131,000 years ago.
It's therefore hardly surprising that Bush's name gets reeled out, with varying degrees of appropriateness, as the ancestor for any new female artist trying to merge glamour, conceptualism, innovation and autonomy: recent examples include Grimes, Julia Holter and FKA Twigs.
A towering cabinet will be emptied of spectacular Meissen porcelain – reputedly swapped by a Churchill ancestor for a pack of hunting dogs – to hold plates being handpainted with the artist's "freedom flowers".
This and other observations made here support the idea that a common early ancestor for Bam35, PRD1, and adenoviruses existed.
Homo antecessor may represent the last common ancestor for Neandertals and modern humans.
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