- 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...
- 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...
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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...
- 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...
- The last
universal common ancestor (LUCA) is the
hypothesized common ancestral cell from
which the
three domains of life, the Bacteria, the Archaea, and...
- The
Ancestor (Italian: L'antenato) is a 1936
Italian comedy film
directed by
Guido Brignone and
starring Antonio Gandusio,
Paola Barbara and
Mercedes Brignone...
- 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...
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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...
- The chimpanzee–human last
common ancestor (CHLCA) is the last
common ancestor shared by the
extant Homo (human) and Pan (chimpanzee and bonobo) genera...
- 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...
