Word: ancestors
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...Where Mary Leakey found the skull of a human ancestor who lived 1.8 million years...
...stir the tempers and emotions of both the players and fans. The Yale teams were less than observant of the developing set of football rules, and according to various reports, the Crimson retaliated with frequent punishment in the form of throttling, punching, and what appears to be an early ancestor of clotheslining. Without a hint of Ivy League etiquette, the games were known for their violent grappling and attempts to maim for victory. The play grew so ugly that in early 1885, the Faculty of Harvard College sent a letter ordering intercollegiate competition prohibited, limiting football to Harvard intramural competition...
...drop rule" has long been an issue for mixed-race people. This convention refers to the belief that if a person has a single black ancestor, he or she is black, according to Appiah...
Regular and irregular verbs today have their roots in old border disputes between words and rules. Many irregulars can be traced back over 5,500 years to a mysterious tribe that came to dominate Europe, western Asia and northern India. Its language, Indo-European, is the ancestor of Hindi, Persian, Russian, Greek, Latin, Gaelic and English. It had rules that replaced vowels: the past of senkw- (sink) was sonkw...
...palpable Midwestern arena of his previous best sellers and, fairly transparently, Turow's home turf of Cook County, Ill. For proper distancing, Robbie's outlandish tale is narrated with understated sympathy by his lawyer, a squeaky-clean member of the bar who is named after his distinguished ancestor, the colonial Virginian George Mason. Robbie's foil is Evon Miller, the latest iteration of one of page and screen's most popular new types: the female FBI agent...