On Lunar New Year and the autumn harvest holiday Chuseok, the entire country takes part in ancestor rites.
The differences among the subjects, however, showed how they may indicate a common ancestor.
But the semantic web is pretty much a direct ancestor of these stone age efforts.
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Recently, researchers found the missing link: the immediate ancestor of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
At different genes, humans share a common genetic ancestor with chimpanzees at different times.
The abacus is one of the first mechanical counting devices, an ancient ancestor of today's computers.
An ancestor of his was Christoph von Lieven, a bright young general in Alexander's entourage.
It bears little resemblance to its forebears or their common ancestor, the undersized-yet-chunky netbook.
The ancestor of polo, this traditional game of horsemen is played with a dead goat rather than a ball.
His first name commemorates an ancestor, John Endicott, who was the state's first colonial governor.
The oldest ancestor of the point-contact transistor was the crystal detector, used in early wireless sets.
The current Lord Elgin said it was "completely untrue" to suggest his ancestor had plundered the Parthenon.
What connects them is their link to a common ancestor -- the family patriarch William Harrison Rand.
About a third of CroV's genes are similar to Mimivirus genes, suggesting they share a distant ancestor.
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FleetBoston's ancestor, for instance, profited from financing the slave trade when it was already illegal under American law.
The two species had lived separately since splitting off from a common ancestor, Homo heidelbergensis, 160, 000 years earlier.
Mr Marriott is still looking for firm evidence of his ancestor's role in bringing the bird to England.
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Biologists have long believed that elephants and sea cows, despite their obvious modern differences, share a common ancestor.
Mrs Murray's ancestor, called Augusta Waddington, was born at Ty Uchaf in 1802.
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If so, the genetics of Arabians should show convergence on an ancient ancestor of more than 125, 000 years ago.
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So scientists can clock how long ago HIV diverged from its chimpanzee ancestor.
But the key is, to be a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, you have to have an Indian ancestor.
Annie's parents were prosperous New Englanders and she claimed an ancestor who had come from England on the Mayflower.
Ancestor worship, as well as respect for one's living extended family, is a foundation of Chinese culture and society.
It is not clear how and why the ancestor of elephants left the water for a life on land.
The researchers had thought the Hobbit's island-hopping ancestor was Homo erectus, which is known to have lived on nearby Java.
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Broadly speaking, a haplogroup is a family of similar haplotypes that share a common ancestor with the same genetic mutations.
He hasn't disturbed the contents of his desk, which include an ancestor's false teeth, passport and a ledger from 1947.
I'd still take it back in time with me and amaze our ancestor with my quirky, but fun, transforming buddy.
Illicit trade's ancestor, smuggling, traces back to ancient times, and many a "thieves' market" survives in the world's commercial hubs.
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