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  1. Forefathers

    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. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of forefathers in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of forefathers in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of forefathers in a Sentence

  1. Oleg Safonov:

    The need for beaches and the sea is very much a stereotype of recent years, which we already accept as our own opinion, our forefathers, even the wealthy, did not go en masse to foreign seas.

  2. Barbara Gervin-Hawkins:

    My forefathers and mothers died for us to have the opportunity to vote, I cannot participate in voter intimidation and voter criminalization, we were told in 2020 some of the safest elections occurred across this country, so I will not participate in destroying things that I believe are ok.

  3. Lia Rensin:

    You've got this fundamental theory that the United States has notchanged at all in 250-plus years, that we are still white supremacists because we are descendants of our forefathers, and then you have violence ... as the means of change, ...It's very clearly indoctrination, and because of that, they're completely subverting the parental role.

  4. Islam Minister DeAndre Muhammad:

    This city will not have a race war, they say. But we must realize that we were victims of war as soon as the soles of our forefathers' feet set foot on the United States of America, we are casualties of war.

  5. Theodore Roosevelt:

    Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.

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