Sentence examples for being ancestors from inspiring English sources

When reading along the tips, students usually read from left to right (Meir et al. 2007), and, in doing so, they often perceive species on the left of the tree as being ancestors of those on the right of the tree (Baum et al. 2005; Baum and Offner 2008).

People have argued that they are ancestors; other people have argued that they're not ancestors.

Not that these particular dinosaurs were ancestors of birds.

Presumably, they were ancestors of the previous owner.

"There were … sacred … rocks — I dunno, they were ancestors, who knows — they were sacred," said Lawrence.

Who were these people? A. They may be ancestors of the Lenape Indians.

The finding bolsters the hypothesis that some dinosaurs were ancestors of today's birds.

The Ancestral Pueblo people, formerly known as Anasazi, were ancestors of the modern Pueblo Indians.

However, they may be ancestors of the modern Lacandon people.

There were ancestors of horses about 12,000 years [ago], but they all went extinct.

The very small roses on my left are ancestors of the modern miniatures on my right.