ancestor
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Based on the limited data currently available, the study suggests that circoviruses may have been infecting the ancestors of modern cetaceans early in their evolutionary history.
From Science Daily
Their findings suggest the specimen may not belong to any known human ancestor species and could represent an entirely new one.
From Science Daily
If true, that ability would make it the earliest known human ancestor.
From Science Daily
"There is simply no way of knowing, without studying a representative sample group from the same area, with ancestors born in the same place and subjected to the same conditions," he told me.
From BBC
We plant, thin, burn and harvest according to knowledge passed down from our ancestors.
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