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common ancestor
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4.48 |
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They have a common ancestor. |
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human ancestor
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3.36 |
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What is the very earliest human ancestor? |
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direct ancestor
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1.58 |
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Direct ancestor? |
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ancient ancestor
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0.99 |
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Each is derived, no doubt, from some ancient shared ancestor. |
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distant ancestor
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0.79 |
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It is quite wolfen, like a distant ancestor thanking the moon for his quarry. |
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earliest ancestor
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0.79 |
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How did our earliest ancestors think? |
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early ancestor
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0.72 |
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Perhaps, anthropologists say, early ancestors were similarly restricted. |
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wild ancestor
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0.59 |
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All these breeds descend from some wild ancestor. |
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remote ancestor
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0.53 |
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Its genes also hint at its remote ancestors. |
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dead ancestor
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0.46 |
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They select quartz stones for the shrine to represent each dead ancestor. |
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african ancestor
|
0.39 |
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They invoked the spirits of their African ancestors and poured libations. |
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european ancestor
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0.39 |
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But even then I could get only the most fragmentary glimpses of my European ancestors. |
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famous ancestor
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0.39 |
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Like his famous ancestor, he is safeguarding a racial secret. |
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reptilian ancestor
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0.39 |
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At what point did the reptilian ancestors of mammals start developing a warmblooded metabolism? |
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universal ancestor
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0.39 |
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A new and far-reaching theory about the universal ancestor has been developed by Woese. |
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immediate ancestor
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0.33 |
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All the known forms were fitted into a single sequence so that the Neanderthals became our own immediate ancestors. |
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jewish ancestor
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0.33 |
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Yegor T. Gaidar, the former prime minister who promoted a free market, also has some Jewish ancestors. |
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male ancestor
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0.26 |
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Somewhere up the ancestry tree, they shared a common male ancestor. |
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mythical ancestor
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0.26 |
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From the darkness appears Mera, a mythical ancestor of Cambodians, flanked by two other dancers dressed in ornate costumes of silk and gold. |
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pioneer ancestor
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0.26 |
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But like your pioneer ancestors who settled this district, you are not deterred by adversity. |