Sentence examples for are ancestral from inspiring English sources
adjective
Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.
Relatively smaller brains are ancestral, relatively larger brains are derived.
Chakras are ancestral plots of land belonging to the community but temporarily used by individual families.
In the meeting rooms are ancestral portraits, of well-mounted men riding to hounds and such like, and antique furniture.
The placoderms were among the first jawed vertebrates to evolve, and are ancestral to human beings.
Features common to crocodiles and lizards are ancestral traits present in the first reptile but lost in birds as they adapted to radically nonreptilian lives.
A splitting right root and supernumerary singlet root are also present in breviates, ancyromonads, and 'typical excavates', suggesting that these characters are ancestral for much of eukaryote diversity.
The difficulty in deciding tetrapod ancestry stems from the inability to determine conclusively which traits are ancestral and which traits arose after one group diverged from another.
But even those whose houses have been destroyed by the tsunami are loth to leave these are ancestral plots that are meant to stay in the family.
This specific genetic orientation is found only in Y. pseudotuberculosis and Y. pestis strains Mictrotus 91001, Angola, Pestoides F and B42003004, which are ancestral to all Y. pestis commonly associated with human infections (branch 1 and branch 2 strains13,14).
The persons who are worshipped are ancestral spirits.
Outgroups are useful for inferring whether substitutions are ancestral or derived.
