“As Adrien perused Charles's journals, meticulously going through every page, he got to know his famous ancestor as much as he knew the other members of his family.”

“This ancestor of the modern smartphone was capable of making phone calls, faxing, text messaging, and e-mailing.”

“On the basis of parsimony alone the single ancestor theory seems highly likely.”

“Many of these families traced their ancestry to the earliest English settlers of this country's oldest fishing port.”

“Zheng speculated that zokors derived from middle Miocene Plesiodipus, which some researchers place close to the ancestry of arvicolines.”

“Such ideas of shared ancestry with Americans, and especially Afro-Americans, persist to the present.”

“Let me picture him dying, my ancestress by his side, happy after years of love.”

“Among the Akan, towns and villages are comprised of distinct wards in which matrilineal descendants of the same ancestress reside.”

“After a minute or two my beautiful ancestress would disappear briefly, soon to return with the satisfaction of a duty performed.”

“The group is bound together and linked with three generations of ancestors through a ceremony called Shraddha.”

“I'm from the generation which sees PDAs as ancestors of the smartphone.”

“According to Lamarck, evolution occurs because organisms can inherit traits which have been acquired by their ancestors.”

“The most frequently reported ancestries, either single or multiple response, were English, Scottish, Canadian, German and Irish.”

“Intermarriage appears to explain the increasing number of people who report multiethnic ancestries.”

“They purposely sought community members from different ancestries to highlight intercultural living.”