ancestor

Proof that the handedness of particles really can mutate microbes would strengthen their case that cosmic rays shoved our ancestors off the evolutionary starting block, but it still wouldn’t fully explain the uniform chirality of life on Earth.

It is possible to name an ancestor to this obsessive-compulsive noir: David Lynch.

Soon after he was seen stumping for the Assad regime in his ancestor's conflagrated homeland.

Schiele is, if nothing else, an ancestor of the best in long-legged fashion illustration.

So a story prefigures Light in August, just as an ancestor precedes a descendant.

That "digital" gesture is a reminder that weavings are the ancestor of today's computer-treated images.

On the last page of the chapter he again saw the name of his ancestor, Autiel Duryea.

All I said was that if he had been my ancestor instead of yours, you would have called him a hangman.

Thus, ancestor cult also began with the cult of animals, not with that of human ancestors.

If you do, you represent the woman whom my ancestor loved, and you are closely related to Jessie Floyd.

Either the soul of an ancestor or that of a protective being is regarded as incorporated in the animal.