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Definition of Ancestral
Ancestral

Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.

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Ancestral Quotations

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
George Eliot

People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
E. O. Wilson

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.
Keith Henson

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
Margaret Walker

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.
Keith Henson

Ancestral Translations

ancestral in German is angestammt, die Vorfahren betreffend
ancestral in Spanish is ancestral

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