And what happened to our more immediate forebears and cousins is the same as what happened to other animals, too.
Both parents were of Scottish descent, although her mother's immediate forebears had connections with Singapore and Australia.
Shaped by the 1968 student protests, those architects were groping for a way to distinguish themselves from their immediate forebears without sundering their ties to Modernity.
In the Pop revolution of the early sixties, the palace of high art was stormed by mild-mannered barbarians, who dispensed with the sophisticated ironies of their immediate forebears Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.
The decade ended with "A Night at the Roxbury" (1998) and "Superstar" (1999), which fared moderately better than their immediate forebears at the box office but just as poorly among critics.
His immediate forebears, the Ḥammūdids of the short-lived caliphate (1016 58) in Spain and North Africa, were an offshoot of the Idrīsids of Morocco (789 985), a dynasty descended from Muḥammad's eldest grandson, al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī.
His parents - Victor, a chiropodist, and Selma, a housewife - were fairly secular Jews whose immediate forebears had left Central Europe and established themselves as small shopkeepers in the US.
So is an organic, discursive pattern of lineal descent, with artists taking cues from their immediate forebears but also rummaging through the past, rejecting and rediscovering and always extending the thread of tradition.
