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What is an ancestor?

What is an ancestor? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather.
  2. An earlier type; a progenitor
  3. (law) One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.
  4. (figuratively) One who had the same role or function in former times.
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On the basis of parsimony alone the single ancestor theory seems highly likely.
The Dani have remained Stone Age farmers who practice ancestor worship and occasionally engage in tribal warfare.
Mating between eastern Canadian wolves, red wolves, and coyotes is possible, he said, because they share a common ancestor.
And the connection must be through an agnate ancestor some generations older than the Royal personage.
A mixture of Shinto, Buddhism and ancestor worship has traditionally guided many Japanese martial practices.
The cult of spirits, shamanism, and ancestor worship compose the three major parts of traditional Hmong religion.

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