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A bunch of species all descended from the single ancestor have proliferated so there are many species now. And they’re all doing different things, for the most part, they are exploiting the environment in different ways. There are big beaks and small beaks. There are sharp beaks and dull ones. – Dolph Schluter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What our age shows is that this can not be true, because they are virtually the same age, there must be an older common ancestor. It also gives much more time for the South African species to evolve, and reopens discussion about the role of the South African species into later hominins such as Paranthropus. – Darryl Granger	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Because they are isolated, they retain whatever genetics was in their ancestor and great ancestors, the Patagonian sheepdog comes the closest to anything anyone has ever seen and that's what makes them so fascinating. – Elaine Ostrander	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I believe it was an attempt to discredit the hard work I put into removing the statues and monuments to my ancestor. – Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee	Found on CNN 2 years ago
All the evidence shows us the pterosaurs are cousins of dinosaurs and that both share a common ancestor. – Mike Benton	Found on CNN 2 years ago
But nothing shows us what pterosaurs looked like before they adapted to fly, all the evidence shows us the pterosaurs are cousins of dinosaurs and that both share a common ancestor. – Eugenia Gold	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'm often asked, how do I feel, knowing that my ancestor's remains were desecrated in such a way -- and I think that the overwhelming emotion that I have every time I'm asked that question and that I continue to have in this moment -- is that I am so happy and encouraged to see so many people care about this issue. – William Hart	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I want him to understand what history is, and what history means. Although he doesn't have anything to do with this story, it's our ancestor who has impacted the lives of a whole family who had a life in this country, i want him to learn and understand that whatever decisions he makes has an impact on someone else's life. – Thomas Edelmann	Found on CNN 3 years ago
When I first heard the minstrel banjo - I played a gourd first - I almost lost my mind. I was like, Oh, my god. And then I went to Africa, to the Gambia, and studied the akonting, which is an ancestor of the banjo, and just that connection to me was just immense. – Rhiannon Giddens	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
There is strong fossil evidence that red algae existed over a billion years ago, and we know the red and green algae diverged from a common ancestor, so, although this doesnt fundamentally change the way Ill think about theevolutionof life, the discovery of this green algal fossil helps fill an important gap and strengthens an emerging timeline for the evolution of early, complex life. – Timothy Gibson	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Proterocladus antiquus is a close relative of the ancestor of all green plants alive today. – Qing Tang	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We used to think that A. anamensis gradually turned into A. afarensis over time, we still think that these two species had an ancestor-descendent relationship, but this new discovery suggests that the two species were actually living together in the Afar for quite some time. It changes our understanding of the evolutionary process and brings up new questions -- were these animals competing for food or space ? – Stephanie Melillo	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Smallpox alone killed millions of millions of people, so if a human ancestor was predisposed to attend to those bumps, to dislike them and stay away from them. – Tom Kupfer	Found on CNN 6 years ago
It’s a green and red flag, it was designed by my ancestor, Leonard Helms, who helped George Rogers Clark conquer the old western frontier. They didn’t have any white or blue material, so he designed it using green and red. – Eric Monday	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Gualicho did not inherit this forelimb anatomy from an ancestor it shared with tyrannosaurs. Rather, it evolved independently in the two groups. – Peter Makovicky	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
That, in turn, suggests that the two groups of insects share a genetic program for eyespot production, the last common ancestor of these insects lived about 320 million years ago, deep in the Paleozoic. So we think this must be a developmental mechanism that goes all the way back to the origins of winged insects. – Conrad Labandeira	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The new species is yet another confirmation that Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, was not the only potential human ancestor species that roamed in what is now the Afar region of Ethiopia during the middle Pliocene, current fossil evidence from the Woranso-Mille study area clearly shows that there were at least two, if not three, early human species living at the same time and in close geographic proximity. – Yohannes Haile-Selassie	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Humans have always been interested in trying to find an answer to the question, 'Where do we come from?' Well, now we know from what type of microbial ancestor we descend, essentially, Lokiarchaeota represent a missing piece of the puzzle of the evolution from simple cells - bacteria and archaea, prokaryotes - to complex cells - eukaryotes, which includes us humans. – Uppsala University	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
While I don't like that the guy is an ancestor, I am happy that aspect of our country's history is being talked about. – The Oscar-winning actor-director	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There's such a huge gap in our understanding around the time when the common ancestor of birds and crocodilians was alive — there isn't a lot out there in the fossil record from that part of the reptile family tree. – Sterling Nesbitt	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
But what this animal tells us [is] that actually the last common ancestor of the two groups had lots of bone, so rather than sharks being primitive, sharks are actually very highly evolved in their own way, and just as highly evolved as we are. – Sam Giles	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Ancestor worship must be an appealing idea to those who are about to become ancestors. – Steven Pinker	added by anonymous 10 years ago
We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration. – Milan Kundera	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. – Laurence J. Peter	added by anonymous 13 years ago

A bunch of species all descended from the single ancestor have proliferated so there are many species now. And they’re all doing different things, for the most part, they are exploiting the environment in different ways. There are big beaks and small beaks. There are sharp beaks and dull ones.

– Dolph Schluter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What our age shows is that this can not be true, because they are virtually the same age, there must be an older common ancestor. It also gives much more time for the South African species to evolve, and reopens discussion about the role of the South African species into later hominins such as Paranthropus.

– Darryl Granger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Because they are isolated, they retain whatever genetics was in their ancestor and great ancestors, the Patagonian sheepdog comes the closest to anything anyone has ever seen and that's what makes them so fascinating.

– Elaine Ostrander

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I believe it was an attempt to discredit the hard work I put into removing the statues and monuments to my ancestor.

– Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee

Found on CNN
2 years ago

All the evidence shows us the pterosaurs are cousins of dinosaurs and that both share a common ancestor.

– Mike Benton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

But nothing shows us what pterosaurs looked like before they adapted to fly, all the evidence shows us the pterosaurs are cousins of dinosaurs and that both share a common ancestor.

– Eugenia Gold

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm often asked, how do I feel, knowing that my ancestor's remains were desecrated in such a way -- and I think that the overwhelming emotion that I have every time I'm asked that question and that I continue to have in this moment -- is that I am so happy and encouraged to see so many people care about this issue.

– William Hart

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I want him to understand what history is, and what history means. Although he doesn't have anything to do with this story, it's our ancestor who has impacted the lives of a whole family who had a life in this country, i want him to learn and understand that whatever decisions he makes has an impact on someone else's life.

– Thomas Edelmann

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When I first heard the minstrel banjo - I played a gourd first - I almost lost my mind. I was like, Oh, my god. And then I went to Africa, to the Gambia, and studied the akonting, which is an ancestor of the banjo, and just that connection to me was just immense.

– Rhiannon Giddens

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

There is strong fossil evidence that red algae existed over a billion years ago, and we know the red and green algae diverged from a common ancestor, so, although this doesnt fundamentally change the way Ill think about theevolutionof life, the discovery of this green algal fossil helps fill an important gap and strengthens an emerging timeline for the evolution of early, complex life.

– Timothy Gibson

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Proterocladus antiquus is a close relative of the ancestor of all green plants alive today.

– Qing Tang

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We used to think that A. anamensis gradually turned into A. afarensis over time, we still think that these two species had an ancestor-descendent relationship, but this new discovery suggests that the two species were actually living together in the Afar for quite some time. It changes our understanding of the evolutionary process and brings up new questions -- were these animals competing for food or space ?

– Stephanie Melillo

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Smallpox alone killed millions of millions of people, so if a human ancestor was predisposed to attend to those bumps, to dislike them and stay away from them.

– Tom Kupfer

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It’s a green and red flag, it was designed by my ancestor, Leonard Helms, who helped George Rogers Clark conquer the old western frontier. They didn’t have any white or blue material, so he designed it using green and red.

– Eric Monday

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Gualicho did not inherit this forelimb anatomy from an ancestor it shared with tyrannosaurs. Rather, it evolved independently in the two groups.

– Peter Makovicky

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

That, in turn, suggests that the two groups of insects share a genetic program for eyespot production, the last common ancestor of these insects lived about 320 million years ago, deep in the Paleozoic. So we think this must be a developmental mechanism that goes all the way back to the origins of winged insects.

– Conrad Labandeira

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The new species is yet another confirmation that Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, was not the only potential human ancestor species that roamed in what is now the Afar region of Ethiopia during the middle Pliocene, current fossil evidence from the Woranso-Mille study area clearly shows that there were at least two, if not three, early human species living at the same time and in close geographic proximity.

– Yohannes Haile-Selassie

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Humans have always been interested in trying to find an answer to the question, 'Where do we come from?' Well, now we know from what type of microbial ancestor we descend, essentially, Lokiarchaeota represent a missing piece of the puzzle of the evolution from simple cells - bacteria and archaea, prokaryotes - to complex cells - eukaryotes, which includes us humans.

– Uppsala University

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

While I don't like that the guy is an ancestor, I am happy that aspect of our country's history is being talked about.

– The Oscar-winning actor-director

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There's such a huge gap in our understanding around the time when the common ancestor of birds and crocodilians was alive — there isn't a lot out there in the fossil record from that part of the reptile family tree.

– Sterling Nesbitt

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

But what this animal tells us [is] that actually the last common ancestor of the two groups had lots of bone, so rather than sharks being primitive, sharks are actually very highly evolved in their own way, and just as highly evolved as we are.

– Sam Giles

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Ancestor worship must be an appealing idea to those who are about to become ancestors.

– Steven Pinker

added by anonymous
10 years ago

We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.

– Milan Kundera

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

– Laurence J. Peter

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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