Sentence examples for be a direct ancestor from inspiring English sources

It is contemporary with the earliest member of the genus Homo, H. habilis, so it cannot be a direct ancestor.

While A. africanus might be a direct ancestor of modern humans, P. robustus was a side branch of the family tree that went extinct for reasons unknown.

Early theories that held that the fish might be a direct ancestor of humankind were disproved by studies in the 1980's of the coelacanth's anatomy and DNA.

The researchers suggest the species - named Australopithecus sediba - could be a direct ancestor to Homo erectus, the predecessor of modern humans.

Paleontologists now position Archaeopteryx, once thought to be a direct ancestor of birds, and several other fossil taxa at the base of the extinct enantiornithine lineage.

The Abydos boat, archaeologists said, predated by as much as 400 years the famous boat recovered at Pharaoh Khufu's pyramid at Giza, but in meaning and function it appeared to be a direct ancestor.

This is a direct ancestor of the stream-of-consciousness narrative so richly deployed by Ford.

Thus, only one of them could have been a direct ancestor of humans, Dr. Berger said, and africanus seemed more likely to have been that ancestor.

The Ringworld of the book's title is a direct ancestor of the Halo system that in turn provided the name for the Xbox killer app.

The language used in the ancient Khmer empire and in Angkor, its capital, was Old Khmer, which is a direct ancestor of modern Khmer.

That is, they passed through what is known as a genetic founder event, in which everyone is a direct ancestor of an extremely small number of forebears -- perhaps a few canoeloads of people who landed at Fanga 'Uta Lagoon.