Sentence examples for direct ancestor from inspiring English sources

Lucy's face resembled a chimpanzee's, and her species was generally assumed to be humanity's direct ancestor.

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

In that case, the scientists added, kadabba was not a subspecies, but the likely direct ancestor of ramidus.

After a century and a half, I met a distant cousin with whom I share a direct ancestor.

It was the first official product of BMW Motorsport and the direct ancestor of the new M3.

The anta of ancient Greece was the direct ancestor of the Roman pilaster.

The Old layer cannot be the direct ancestor of the New layer.

They share the Secretary's great-grandfather as a common direct 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.

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.

He later told Science, "We're not saying this is the direct ancestor, but, if you start weighing this all, it will end up as the most probable ancestor".