Sentence examples for ancestor to from inspiring English sources

The kingdom of Dahomey, precolonial ancestor to Benin, profited handsomely from the traffic in black slaves.

Herbivory evolved in the ancestor to the Leiolepinae (family Agamidae), the ancestor to the Iguaninae (family Iguanidae), and in some members of the Liolaeminae (family Iguanidae).

Trigger was an ancestor to Father Dougal and I'm glad I once had a chance to tell him so".

A final stop reveals a cast of the skeleton Lucy, the first pre-human ancestor to walk on two feet.

The earliest known ancestor to modern horses, Hyracotherium, emerged in North America some fifty million years ago.

By building a family tree of the germ, the team dated the bacterial ancestor to the late Roman period.

Genealogies were examined in great detail — was there an ancestor to exploit, anyone with an odd, foreign-sounding last name?

On view for the first time, it serves as an ancient ancestor to the printed diagrams.

The results raised the possibility that A. sediba may have been an ancestor to H. erectus.

It cost one cent and was the ancestor to what you are reading now.

Stated another way, this tree shows that the last common ancestor to all three species lived in a more remote past than the last common ancestor to humans and monkeys.