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... 5 KB (445 words) - 19:28, 26 April 2024 |
 | The last universal common ancestor (LUCA) is the hypothesized common ancestral cell from which the three domains of life, the Bacteria, the Archaea, and... 61 KB (6,493 words) - 01:27, 20 March 2024 |
 | Veneration of the dead (redirect from Ancestor worship) The veneration of the dead, including one's ancestors, is based on love and respect for the deceased. In some cultures, it is related to beliefs that... 62 KB (7,709 words) - 06:46, 23 April 2024 |
and genetic genealogy, the most recent common ancestor (MRCA), also known as the last common ancestor (LCA), of a set of organisms is the most recent... 23 KB (2,873 words) - 00:23, 30 March 2024 |
individuals or groups are descended. Ancestor, ancestors, or ancestry may also refer to: The Ancestor, a 1936 Italian film Ancestors (TV series), a public television... 1 KB (170 words) - 04:03, 26 September 2022 |
Our Ancestors (Italian: I Nostri Antenati) is the name of Italo Calvino's "heraldic trilogy" that comprises The Cloven Viscount (1952), The Baron in the... 390 bytes (34 words) - 22:35, 27 November 2015 |
The Ancestor (Italian: L'antenato) is a 1936 Italian comedy film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Antonio Gandusio, Paola Barbara and Mercedes Brignone... 2 KB (116 words) - 16:40, 21 December 2023 |
graph theory and computer science, the lowest common ancestor (LCA) (also called least common ancestor) of two nodes v and w in a tree or directed acyclic... 24 KB (2,991 words) - 06:43, 27 March 2024 |
The chimpanzee–human last common ancestor (CHLCA) is the last common ancestor shared by the extant Homo (human) and Pan (chimpanzee and bonobo) genera... 19 KB (2,294 words) - 11:15, 17 April 2024 |
Wild ancestors are the original species from which domesticated plants and animals are derived. Examples include dogs which are derived from wolves and... 19 KB (2,407 words) - 03:46, 22 January 2024 |
Ancestors in the Attic is a Canadian television program about genealogy presented by Reader's Digest Canada and shown on History Television in Canada... 2 KB (109 words) - 12:28, 7 February 2024 |
In genetic genealogy, the identical ancestors point (IAP), or all common ancestors (ACA) point, or genetic isopoint, is the most recent point in a given... 8 KB (1,122 words) - 02:13, 20 January 2024 |
 | Chinese ancestor veneration, also called Chinese ancestor worship, is an aspect of the Chinese traditional religion which revolves around the ritual celebration... 20 KB (2,344 words) - 16:55, 30 December 2023 |
 | The Oath of the Ancestors (French: Le Serment des ancêtres) is an 1822 painting by the Guadeloupe-born French artist Guillaume Guillon-Lethière depicting... 3 KB (318 words) - 03:04, 22 June 2023 |
Common descent (redirect from Common ancestor) ancestor of two or more species later in time. According to modern evolutionary biology, all living beings could be descendants of a unique ancestor commonly... 30 KB (3,067 words) - 20:13, 26 March 2024 |
universal common ancestor (FUCA) is a proposed non-cellular entity that is the earliest ancestor of the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) and its descendants... 16 KB (1,832 words) - 19:34, 23 February 2024 |
 | such as English and Hindi, all believed to be descended from a common ancestor language Proto-Indo-European, spoken several thousand years ago. The language... 34 KB (4,067 words) - 16:16, 13 April 2024 |
 | Enoch (redirect from Enoch, ancestor of Noah) Enoch. The first is a brief mention in one of the genealogies of the ancestors of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. (Luke 3:37). The second mention is in... 24 KB (2,940 words) - 20:44, 29 April 2024 |
 | Boreoeutheria (redirect from Boreoeutherian ancestor) million years ago. The common ancestor of Boreoeutheria lived between 107 and 90 million years ago. The boreoeutherian ancestor gave rise to species as diverse... 16 KB (1,258 words) - 06:49, 27 February 2024 |
 | The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life is a science book by Richard Dawkins and Yan Wong that delves into the topic of evolution. The book... 54 KB (973 words) - 08:26, 6 March 2024 |
science, Tarjan's off-line lowest common ancestors algorithm is an algorithm for computing lowest common ancestors for pairs of nodes in a tree, based on... 4 KB (577 words) - 08:46, 14 August 2023 |
 | Spirit tablet (redirect from Ancestor tablet) designate the seat of a deity or past ancestor as well as to enclose it. The name of the deity or the past ancestor is usually inscribed onto the tablet... 8 KB (903 words) - 17:45, 1 March 2024 |
 | common ancestor, and are separated from their most recent common ancestor by two or more generations. This means neither person is an ancestor of the... 23 KB (2,043 words) - 21:09, 30 April 2024 |
 | The ancestors of Rama, the protagonist of the Ramayana, are described below according to Vishnu Purana and Valmiki Ramayana. The famous personalities... 4 KB (422 words) - 06:20, 19 February 2024 |
Meet the Ancestors (later Ancestors) is a BBC Television documentary series first broadcast in 1998. It documented the archaeological excavation and scientific... 25 KB (101 words) - 11:02, 4 September 2023 |
Ancestor is a science fiction thriller novel by American writer Scott Sigler. The novel was released in podcast format in 2006, with it also being released... 4 KB (262 words) - 20:08, 30 June 2022 |
 | grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree. In the taxonomical... 17 KB (1,774 words) - 22:20, 30 March 2024 |
Ancestors of Avalon is a 2004 historical fantasy novel by American writer Diana L. Paxson, based on an idea of Marion Zimmer Bradley. The book is one... 3 KB (293 words) - 16:33, 20 February 2024 |
Progenitor (redirect from Top ancestor) as family history) understands a progenitor to be the earliest recorded ancestor of a consanguineous family group of descendants. Progenitors are sometimes... 7 KB (637 words) - 03:30, 11 February 2023 |
 | Five Ancestor Boxing (Wuzuquan or Ngo-cho Kun) is a Southern Chinese martial art that consists of principles and techniques from five styles: the breathing... 18 KB (2,549 words) - 18:21, 31 March 2024 |