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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.

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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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