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