Definitions for ancestors
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1. ancestors

   An ancestor, also known as a forefather, fore-elder, or a forebear, is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent and so forth). Ancestor is "any person from whom one is descended. In law, the person from whom an estate has been inherited."Two individuals have a genetic relationship if one is the ancestor of the other or if they share a common ancestor. In evolutionary theory, species which share an evolutionary ancestor are said to be of common descent. However, this concept of ancestry does not apply to some bacteria and other organisms capable of horizontal gene transfer. Some research suggests that the average person has twice as many female ancestors as male ancestors. This might have been due to the past prevalence of polygynous relations and female hypergamy.Assuming that all of an individual's ancestors are otherwise unrelated to each other, that individual has 2n ancestors in the nth generation before her/him and a total of 2g+1 − 2 ancestors in the g generations before him/her. In practice, however, it is clear that most ancestors of humans (and any other species) are multiply related (see pedigree collapse). Consider n = 40: the human species is more than 40 generations old, yet the number 240, approximately 1012 or one trillion, dwarfs the number of humans who have ever lived. Some cultures confer reverence to ancestors, both living and dead; in contrast, some more youth-oriented cultural contexts display less veneration of elders. In other cultural contexts, some people seek providence from their deceased ancestors; this practice is sometimes known as ancestor worship or, more accurately, ancestor veneration.

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1. Ancestors

   Ancestors is a five-piece psychedelic/progressive rock/doom metal ensemble residing in Los Angeles.

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1. ANCESTORS

   The originators of the Family Tree, a remarkable sex paradox in which the Ann sisters are always the four fathers.

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1. sensactor

How to pronounce ancestors?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say ancestors in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of ancestors in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of ancestors in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of ancestors in a Sentence

1. Arun Majumdar:

   The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability will not only harness the intellectual horsepower of our students, faculty, and staff across our campus, but also partner with external organizations around the world to co-develop innovative solutions and identify new insights through research and education, as is often said, we do not inherit Stanford Earth from our ancestors, we borrow Stanford Earth from our children. We must create a future in which humans and nature thrive together.

2. Stephanie Melillo:

   Until now, we had a big gap between the earliest-known human ancestors, which are about six million years old, and species like' Lucy,' which are two to three million years old. One of the most exciting aspects of this discovery is how it bridges the morphological space between these two groups.

3. Jacob G. Hornburger:

   The lesson that Americans today have forgotten or never learned -- the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach -- is that the greatest threat to our lives, liberty, property, and security is not some foreign government, as our rulers so often tell us. The greatest threat to our freedom and well-being lies with our own government!.

4. Shigenori Murakami:

   I have not picked a successor yet, but I have confidence I can keep going myself and I will surely pass this on, i cannot let my generation be the ones who destroy what my ancestors protected with their lives.

5. David Faigman:

   We never shied away from that history, or I never did, and I wanted to confront it, and then the question was,' What to do about it ?' And that went to the recommendations to identify initiatives to reconcile and restore justice with the descendants who feel the historical trauma and pain of what their ancestors suffered.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestors
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=ancestors
3. ^ The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1989/pg1989-images.html#:~:text=ancestors