antecessor

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Recent Examples on the Web With that information, the researchers could place H. antecessor more confidently within the human lineage. Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2020 But visual inspection could not resolve where H. antecessor fit in the hominin lineup. Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2020 Though, a protein analysis of the 800,000-year-old tooth enamel of a H. antecessor published last year lends his theory credence. Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 17 Dec. 2021 The physical features of H. antecessor have left anthropologists puzzling over its relationships with other early humans. Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 1 Apr. 2020 The EVAs are both primal antecessors and evolved descendants of humans; occasionally, the two beings are one and the same. Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, 21 June 2019 In addition to marks showing flesh was stripped from the bone, evidence suggests the Gran Dolina residents—an ancient human relative called Homo antecessor—ate their victims’ brains. Kevin Webb, National Geographic, 6 Apr. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for antecessor
Noun
  • Lively, fun and full of some genuinely endearing magical moments, the new Disney series has the potential of standing just as prominently as its predecessor.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Where his predecessors made their names aligning with Colombian elites, Petro acted as a renegade and started his own political party.
    Justin Worland/Bogotá, TIME, 29 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • In the sequel, Moana receives a surprise call to action from her ancestors and wades into dangerous waters with a new crew and fresh songs from Grammy Award winners Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Ghosts were feared, but unlike our modern times, they were also worshiped (the term for ghosts and gods were sometimes interchangeable), captured by humans to perform unpaid labor, and welcomed as ancestors.
    Tithi Bhattacharya / Made by History, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • But Gilmour, who joined psych-prog progenitors Pink Floyd two years after the band’s 1965 inception, proved vibrant and vital at his fourth show in Los Angeles and final evening of a three-night-stand at the Hollywood Bowl.
    Katherine Turman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Among the astronomers, it is generally believed that these nuclei are the fragments released from a common progenitor.
    Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Brandon, who is named after Chelsea’s grandfather, was born first and his brother, Maximus, arrived two months later.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 26 Oct. 2024
  • His maternal grandfather, Joseph Ryter, had been a congressman for one term, 1945-47, which Heff liked to mention.
    Mark Oppenheimer, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • But with relaxed censorship and a new governmental push to foster cinematic culture, the late 1990s saw the formation of the prolific South Korean auteurs best known internationally today—the forefathers of the New Korean Cinema.
    Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Their forefathers and descendants have been on this land for nearly 300 years starting as slaves on the plantations.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Doing so proved attractive to Americans because Spiritualists taught that the afterlife was more joyful than the vision portrayed by their Calvinist forebears, who emphasized punishments for sins by an angry God.
    Elizabeth Garner Masarik / Made by History, TIME, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Space aficionados often compare the drive to explore other worlds to the impulse that sent humans on voyages around the world, depicting our forebears’ curiosity about our own planet as an innate imperative curiosity that defines us as an alpha species.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Like its classic-rock forebearer Desert Trip, the concert will bring two acts per night to Indio’s Empire Polo Club, on the weekend of Oct. 6-8.
    August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • After leaving Alabama, Avinger served a year in the U.S. Army, then signed for a season with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Western Interprovincial Football Union, one of the forebearers of the Canadian Football League.
    Mark Inabinett | minabinett@al.com, al, 17 Apr. 2023

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“Antecessor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antecessor. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.

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