- plural of ancestor.
ancestors
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She then mapped the evolutionary relationships among those sequences and used statistical methods to estimate the most likely genetic sequences carried by their common ancestors, extending the reconstruction back roughly 160 million years.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
The Moni people refer to it as Mbainggela, and believe their ancestors watch over the mountain.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
“Our cats’ ancestors were already meowing when they began living alongside humans,” Schwartz says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Brian Guillermo Dyson was born Sept. 7, 1935, into a family whose British ancestors emigrated to Argentina in the 19th century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
How else could they afford to buy wives for their sons and insure that they would eventually become ancestors?
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
