Sentence examples for primordial ancestor from inspiring English sources

Other accounts refer to other demiurges, or creators, like Manu (the primordial ancestor of humankind).

The Great Mask, which is never worn and is made anew every 60 years, represents the primordial ancestor who met death while he was in the form of a serpent.

This prototype describes the primordial ancestor of the related EFLs.

The taxonomy indicates that the S. purpuratus Nox2 isologs represent a branch closest to the primordial ancestor of all isologs of vertebrate Nox1, Nox2 and Nox3.

This system confers a rigid universal taxonomic structure for a universal 'tree of life', a phylogeny that describes how lineages on Earth diversified from a primordial ancestor.

Such a high degree of evolutionary conservation would suggest that bacterial and mammalian Minpps have originated from a common primordial ancestor.

There is something romantic about gas, some civilised, even cultured, connection to the fire over which our primordial ancestors cooked.

Dogon sculpture is intimately linked with spiritual beliefs related to ancestors, both real ancestors and mythic Nommo spirits (primordial ancestors created by the central god, Amma).

Humphrey offers a daring and novel solution, arguing that sensations are not things that happen to us, they are things we do—originating in our primordial ancestors' expressions of liking or disgust.

The attacker may represent an inner fear or desire that's being repressed by the waking ego; it could represent someone or something in the external world posing a threat to the dreamer; and/or it could reflect the instinctual echoes of our primordial ancestors, whose survival depended on being ready to respond to attacks by large predators.

Large wood engravings presented amphioxus and ascidians as "primordial ancestors of the tribe of backboned animals" (Fig.  2).