1.   All the known forms were fitted into a single sequence so that the Neanderthals became our own immediate ancestors.

2.   In large measure, however, Jia and the Chinese scientific establishment have lost ground in maintaining these specimens of the immediate ancestor of Homo sapiens.

3.   While Mozart and Brahms wrote in languages received from immediate ancestors, a member of the postwar school became creator and philologist in one.

4.   For this reason, the researchers believe the fossils represent true dinosaurs that are the immediate ancestors of the first birds.

5.   He worked as a research scientists in the department of paleontology, principally on dinosaurs and their immediate Triassic period ancestors.