The phrase "ancestral line" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a lineage or family heritage that is traced back through generations.
Example: "She was proud of her ancestral line, which included several notable figures in history."
Alternatives: "family lineage" or "bloodline".
What made our particular ancestral line different?
They also cast most australopithecines out of the human ancestral line.
"The new species represents the most ancestral line of living orangutans," said Wich.
Maybe Archaeopteryx wasn't on the direct ancestral line to birds, but was part of an early experimentation in how to build a bird-like body".
So almost any major primate fossil at a significant point in our ancestral line could be referred to by that over-used phrase.
The scientists said it was too early to know whether the skull represented a species on a direct ancestral line to humans.
Likes and dislikes, which seem unreasoned, blind ; Strange contradictions ; loathings ; yearnings tense Inherent in the individual mind :a These qualities are heritage immense, Bequeathed us from the very dawn of time, Ourselves ancestors in the ancestral line.
[image: Henry Venn, 1759-1813, Henry Straith Venn's great-grandfather] The ancestral line of Henry Straith Venn (1869-1908) was a weighty, chronicled one stocked almost entirely on the male side by distinguished, formidable, moralistic churchmen.
Ubisoft also revealed that Desmond Miles, the series' main protagonist who re-lives the past existences of his ancestral line with the use of a contraption called the Animus, won't feature in the new game.
Otherwise, he added, Toumai is ancestral to some other hominids that then gave rise to the Homo species, in which case australopithecines are a side branch outside the human ancestral line.
Its ancestral line appears to have diverged from canid stock during the Late Miocene Epoch and to have developed into modern species through such Pliocene forms as Hyaenarctos of Europe, Asia, and North America.
