Sentence examples for immediate ancestors from inspiring English sources

The Saurischia also include all the immediate ancestors of birds.

"I think I was longing, really, to know my ancestors better - the immediate ancestors.

The immediate ancestors of Au. afarensis were found in Kenya in the mid-1990s.

Conversely, the immediate ancestors parents and grandparents—of long-lived persons on the average are older at death than are the immediate ancestors of persons who die at a relatively young age.

The current thinking in the field is that our immediate ancestors set out from Africa around 70,000 years ago.

He may be mocking his immediate ancestors on the American art stage a little, but what matters is the positive visual statement that emerged.

As a young man, Mr. Rockefeller became steadily aware that the philanthropy of his generation would require greater specialization than the eclectic approaches at of his immediate ancestors.

He has found out that his immediate ancestors, Jewish grain tycoons from Odessa named Ephrussi, were allowed similar access when they were young.

This held true not only for the six immediate ancestors as a group but also for each category father, mother, paternal and maternal grandparents.

The New Yorker, April 6 , 1957P. 110 When the writer's Chinese father-in-law died early in 1949, shortly after the Communists occupied Peiping, his name tablet joined the tablets of his dead wife and immediate ancestors.

Hominids—human beings and their immediate ancestors have existed on Earth for at least 2,000,000 years.