Sentence examples for immediate ancestor from inspiring English sources

Who was that immediate ancestor?

His immediate ancestor was J.E.C. Bodley, the historian.

Its immediate ancestor is probably also relatively new to chimpanzees.

At 1.7 million years ago, humans' most immediate ancestor, Homo erectus, first appeared.

Homo erectus, our more immediate ancestor, has long legs and a lean, striding body.

Of course, American identity has always contained competing models; even the original frontiersman, the cowboy's immediate ancestor, had two faces.

He was the immediate ancestor of the three 15th-century Lancastrian monarchs, Henry IV, V, and VI.

This suggests that the immediate ancestor of Homo erectus was an early Homo habilis or even another yet to be discovered species of early human.

Although UK garage was the immediate ancestor, in crucial ways they were both more like the reactivation of different aspects of jungle.

This dish, called carne con chile or carne con chile colorado (colorado meaning red, specifically the dark russet of dried chiles), is the immediate ancestor of Texas chili.

And Dietmar Küblböck matched him beautifully on an antique trombone, playing with a power and bite that left the instrument's immediate ancestor, the sackbut, a distant memory.