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Definition of Ancestor

Ancestor One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father. An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse. One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir. Related Definitions: An, Ancestor, Animal, Any, As, At, Correlative, Descended, Distance, Estate, Father, Fore, Fossil, From, Heir, Horse, Has, Is, Mother, Of, On, One, Or, Person, Progenitor, Regarded, Side, The, This, Time, Type, Whether, Whom

Ancestor Quotations The ancestor of every action is a thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. Ambrose Bierce For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor. Albert Claude But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor. Donald Johanson When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins. Donald Johanson

Ancestor Translations ancestor in German is Vorfahr, Vorfahre, Ahne, Vorfahr ancestor in Latin is atavus, progenitor ancestor in Spanish is antepasado

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