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Cosa (chi) è ancestor - definizione

PERSON FROM WHOM ANOTHER PERSON IS DESCENDED
Ancestry; Ancestral; Ancestors; Forefathers; Ancestress; Forebear; Terminal ancestor; Fore-elder; Ancestory; Forebears; Foreelder; Fore-bear

ancestor         
(ancestors)
1.
Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended.
...our daily lives, so different from those of our ancestors...
He could trace his ancestors back seven hundred years.
? descendant
N-COUNT: usu pl, with poss
2.
An ancestor of something modern is an earlier thing from which it developed.
The direct ancestor of the modern cat was the Kaffir cat of ancient Egypt...
? descendant
N-COUNT: usu N of n
ancestor         
n. a common; remote ancestor
Ancestor         
·noun One from whom an estate has descended;
- the correlative of heir.
II. Ancestor ·noun An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.
III. Ancestor ·noun One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

Wikipedia

Ancestor

An ancestor, also known as a forefather, fore-elder, or a forebear, is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent and so forth). Ancestor is "any person from whom one is descended. In law, the person from whom an estate has been inherited."

Two individuals have a genetic relationship if one is the ancestor of the other or if they share a common ancestor. In evolutionary theory, species which share an evolutionary ancestor are said to be of common descent. However, this concept of ancestry does not apply to some bacteria and other organisms capable of horizontal gene transfer. Some research suggests that the average person has twice as many female ancestors as male ancestors. This might have been due to the past prevalence of polygynous relations and female hypergamy.

Assuming that all of an individual's ancestors are otherwise unrelated to each other, that individual has 2n ancestors in the nth generation before her/him and a total of 2g+1 − 2 ancestors in the g generations before him/her. In practice, however, it is clear that most ancestors of humans (and any other species) are multiply related (see pedigree collapse). Consider n = 40: the human species is more than 40 generations old, yet the number 240, approximately 1012 or one trillion, dwarfs the number of humans who have ever lived.

Some cultures confer reverence to ancestors, both living and dead; in contrast, some more youth-oriented cultural contexts display less veneration of elders. In other cultural contexts, some people seek providence from their deceased ancestors; this practice is sometimes known as ancestor worship or, more accurately, ancestor veneration.

Esempi dal corpus di testo per ancestor
1. They also resurrected the ancestor of the hormone‘s partner.
2. Scientists had thought the dinosaurs rapidly replaced their ancestor species.
3. Wilson‘s promiscuity would have shocked his distant ancestor, Cotton Mather.
4. Andrew, 44, discovered his illustrious ancestor in unsettling circumstances.
5. Douglas Hamilton played the role of his fallen ancestor.