distant ancestor
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdistantandancestor
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distant
adjective
uk/ˈdɪs.tənt/us/ˈdɪs.tənt/
far ...
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ancestor
noun[C]
uk/ˈæn.ses.tər/us/ˈæn.ses.tɚ/
a person related to you who lived a long ...
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(Definition ofdistantandancestorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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More generally, x and its successor x have a moredistantancestorin common.
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One of the megafuana that survived until the 17th century was the aurochs, thedistantancestorof modern cattle.
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The town, named for adistantancestorwho helped found it, is covered in fog and deserted.
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Where languages are derived from a verydistantancestor, and are thus more distantly related, the comparative method becomes impracticable.
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Louis' electric guitar work is also considered adistantancestorof heavy metal music.
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Grant that our distant ancestors wanted to make tools when they knapped away.
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In some cases, it is necessary to inquire further if more distant ancestors are known to have been affected.
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The tablets which hold the names of temporally more distant ancestors become the focus of larger groups of agnates.
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But what intentions can we reasonably attribute to these distant ancestors?
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Such covert influence of symmetry is also present in the entirely unrelated artefacts of our distant ancestors, in their depictions of animals.
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Granted that our distant ancestors had some intentions when they engaged in knapping.
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Group 1 images depicting unsexed and / or pre-gendered creatures may represent distant ancestors with a clear link to the supernatural.
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Because action selection is a fundamental concern faced even by our distant ancestors, we should expect that it involves phylogenetically old structures such as the basal ganglia.
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If the aim of psychology is to uncover the current architecture and functioning of our mental capacities, why worry about the precise causal mechanisms that drove evolution among distant ancestors?
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Our distant ancestors, the first true humans, started to communicate through language some 35,000 years ago and, almost contemporaneously, they began to create pictures on the walls of their caves.
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Although selective breeding has changed the appearance of many breeds, all dogs retain basic traits from their distant ancestors.
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It has six sets of chromosomes, two sets from each of three different diploid species that are its distant ancestors.
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More distant ancestors were among the earliest flamenco performers known.
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Although selective breeding has changed the appearance of many breeds, all dogs retain the basic characteristics of their distant ancestors.
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