"ancestor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- No fossil has been found that can be identified as an immediate ancestor of the pterosaurs.
- One study suggested that the earliest birds and their immediate ancestors did not climb trees.
- Further, no one but you, or I, or some other immediate ancestor, should have been able to find that grave.
- He was a strapping young man who gave some promise of being quite a bit larger than his immediate ancestors.
- Maybe when he was a baby he hadn't looked so much like his immediate male ancestor.
- Two clades are sisters if they have an immediate common ancestor.
- "My immediate ancestors couldn't be farther away," she admitted.
- Avialae is a term for birds and their immediate extinct ancestors.
- All the known forms were fitted into a single sequence so that the Neanderthals became our own immediate ancestors.
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