Sentence examples for direct ancestors from inspiring English sources

Were these direct ancestors?

"We can't say they are the direct ancestors of Neanderthals.

This group includes modern crocodilians and their direct ancestors.

They are, genetically, our direct ancestors, although "direct" is a relative term.

The direct ancestors of the emoji we know and use today debuted in Japan in 1999.

The non-avian dinosaurs were killed off completely, but others survived and became the direct ancestors of birds.

His Calverts and Beaumonts are the direct ancestors of Yeats's Lady Gregory and Joyce's Harriet Shaw Weaver.

These works are often regarded as direct ancestors of the discomposed, "all over" pictorial space of Abstract Expressionism.

Prosauropods have long been seen as including the first direct ancestors of the giant sauropods, probably among the melanorosaurids.

"This behaviour was considered exclusive to modern humans and has been used as an argument to distinguish our direct ancestors from ancient man, including Neanderthals".

The findings bring fresh evidence to the long debate over why Neanderthals and not our direct ancestors, the early modern humans, went extinct.