1.   Folk-song is the direct ancestor of lyric poetry, and the simplest artistic form that unites the Apolline and the Dionysiac.

2.   It is the direct ancestor of the organization Daley inherited.

3.   The direct ancestor of the modern cat was the Kaffir cat of ancient Egypt.

4.   Although the creature walked upright, the combination of specialised chewing behaviour and a small brain does not make it our direct ancestor.

5.   As Leakey reported in the journal Nature last week, her team had discovered what is probably the oldest direct human ancestor ever identified.

6.   But its place on the family tree, as a direct ancestor or a side branch, is still being evaluated.

7.   But no one yet knows who the direct ancestors of Homo erectus were, White noted, and that mystery remains an unsolved question.

8.   But they, too, questioned whether the earlier ramidus hominid was a direct ancestor of either anamensis or afarensis.

9.   Direct ancestor?

10.   In fact, Dyson said, King is a direct ancestor of rap music and hip-hop.