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Ancestor

1. One from whom a person is descended, whether on the fathers or mothers side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

2. (Science: biology) An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.

3. One from whom an estate has descended; the correlative of heir.

Origin: oe. Ancestre, auncestre, also ancessour; the first forms fr. OF. Ancestre, f. Ancetre, fr. The L. Nom. Antessor one who goes before; the last form fr. OF. Ancessor, fr. L. Acc. Antecessorem, fr. Antecedere to go before; ante before _ cedere to go. See Cede, and cf. Antecessor.


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Re: Question About Common Descent

... earliest organisms took part in a considerable amount of horizontal gene transfer. Therefore, it may not be possible to determine how many common ancestors there were during the very early part of life's history on earth.

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by robsabba
Fri Sep 04, 2009 7:10 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Question About Common Descent
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Re: Natural selection is proven wrong

... to 46's. Where "human" is defined as having the unique 46 chromosome genome design that separates us from 47 and 48 ancestors there was a first human couple in our ancestry that was already fully human. There is here a human man and a woman Chromosomal Adam and Eve ...

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by GaryGaulin
Tue Sep 01, 2009 3:00 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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Why The Religious Minded Rule Science With Science

... should admit that whith current knowledge and evidence we have the theory of evolution is overwhelmingly supported, the chance that we or our ancestors or life on Earth was created by aliens is diminishingly small, and that the claim that a god has created us has no scientific basis whatsoever, ...

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by biohazard
Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:42 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Why The Religious Minded Rule Science With Science
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Natural selection wrong due to cambrian explosion

Yeah, it is possible for soft creatures to be fossilized, it just doesn't happen as often as hard creatures. It is difficult to find common ancestors of Cambrian organisms in Pre-Cambrian fossils because there just aren't that many. Evolution isn't based on the fossil record only. The Cambrian ...

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by papa1983
Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:08 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection wrong due to cambrian explosion
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Natural selection wrong due to cambrian explosion

... question. Perhaps a better an more open question would be, "Is there _any_ evidence that species living during Cambrian times have common ancestors who lived during pre-Cambrian times?" And I'm sure more of these members would be more than happy to answer a question like that. Evolution ...

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by papa1983
Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:15 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection wrong due to cambrian explosion
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