Sifting through the tenuously connected word constellation it occurs to you that people like Basquiat and Burroughs and the Beats were forebears of the post-Gutenberg dislocation of text from its moorings -- one that we all swim in - with passages and words and texts floating to us and past us from multiple screens of varying sizes throughout each day.
Now the drag queens, bull dykes, and homeless youths of Stonewall were "forebears," marching somewhere behind Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Another caveman in the tableau wears an elegant collared robe and stands back skeptically to watch the work; he may represent forebears of Knight's more difficult patrons.
The white men and women buried here are the forebears of Mrs. Tribble, a retired bookkeeper who delights in her two grandchildren and her Sunday church mornings.
The evolutionary transitions fit the predictions of the monogamy hypothesis: The ancestors of today's cooperative breeders were less promiscuous than were the forebears of modern noncooperative breeders.
Until recently, most researchers assumed that the fossils of small Miocene apes were the ancestors of gibbons or extinct lineages of little primates, whereas the larger bodied fossil apes were the forebears of greater apes and humans.
In that case, they said, the enigmatic Neanderthals, who became extinct in Europe 30,000 years ago, could not have been direct forebears of today's humans.
In that case, they said, the enigmatic Neanderthals, which became extinct in Europe 30,000 years ago, could not have been direct forebears of today's humans.
Always by the side of the mainstream, running the other way, they're spiritual forebears of The Mighty Boosh, but otherwise out of step with contemporary performers.
Luther and Calvin were the forebears of the Magisterial Reformation, an ethos that persists today in some quarters of the various churches fashioned in their likeness (Lutheranism and Presbyterianism most prominent among them).
