Sentence examples for first ancestors from inspiring English sources

Our first ancestors stood Descartes's axiom on its head: I don't think, thus I truly am.

Eve Jochnowitz, a culinary ethnographer in New York, said: "The first ancestors of gefilte fish came from France in the late Middle Ages, where a couple of the oldest cookery manuscripts include stuffed fish mixtures with almonds and saffron".

The findings, being reported today in the journal Nature, are considered a significant step toward understanding who were some of the first ancestors to migrate out of Africa some 1.8 million years ago.

The recent excavations, which reveal that the earliest settlers arrived with previously developed architectural concepts and a highly specialized megalithic masonry technique, support island traditions, which claim that the first ancestors arrived in an organized party of emigrants and not merely as casually wind-driven fishermen.

Interestingly, the first ancestors of Streptomyces species appeared as recently as 450 million years ago (Chater 2006), and S. lividans' clade (violaceoruber/coelicolor) apparently separated from its sister clade, avermitilis, 220 million years ago (Hatano et al. 1994; Kawamoto and Ochi 1998; Duangmal et al. 2005; Chater and Chandra 2006; Ventura et al. 2007).

The hikoi was made in honour of Hape, one of the first ancestors to arrive from Hawaiki.

The first ancestor was Houji, literally translated as "Lord of Millet".

He is also said to have been of divine origin, his first ancestor having been a gray wolf, "born with a destiny from heaven on high".

LL Bean designed the modern tote's first ancestor in 1944 with the Bean's Ice Carrier, a hefty bag made of reinforced cotton for carrying giant blocks of ice from "car to ice chest".

The first ancestor of the Aesir is born not when some greater god decrees it but when a hornless cow of mysterious origins licks a block of ice until a head appears, and then a body.

Shell microstructure and mineralogy evidence generally support paleontological conclusions that the class Bivalvia comprises six subclasses, recognizing, however, that some of these taxa may have more than one first ancestor (polyphyletic).