Sentence examples for directs ancestor from inspiring English sources

The Diola have a priestly class that directs ancestor veneration.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

The fourth was HIV-1.The fifth was the chimpanzee virus that is the direct ancestor of HIV-1.