It may be proven that Macedonians spoke Greek since Macedon, the ancestor of Macedonians, was a brother of Magnes, the ancestor of Thessalians, who spoke Greek.
The scientists used cross-pollination and seed embryo transfer technology to transfer some of the resilience of the ancient ancestor of wheat into modern British varieties.
The other kind of fairy tale, the ancestor of the literary variety, is the oral tale, whose origins cannot be dated, since they precede recoverable history.
That similarity, though, is almost certainly the result of convergent evolution rather than a common origin, since the last joint ancestor of Crassicorophium and spiders lived way longer ago than the ancestor of Crassicorophium and barnacles.
In another case, a friend of mine decided to donate an old family heirloom, one document showing the contribution of her ancestor in the military.
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Recently, researchers found the missing link: the immediate ancestor of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
The oldest ancestor of the point-contact transistor was the crystal detector, used in early wireless sets.
Eliseg's great-grandson, Cyngen (died 854), commemorated the achievements of his ancestor by raising the cross and written in Latin in 31 horizontal lines, the inscription was broken into paragraphs separated by small crosses.
The 4i touts 60 graphics cores versus the 12 of its ancestor, and inherits the high dynamic range photography and video engine of the Tegra 4.
Since the last common ancestor of the two species lived more than 400, 000 years ago (see following story) fire-control is probably at least as old as that, for they lived in different parts of the world, and so could not have copied each other.
Aglow with a feeling of accomplishment, I hit upon the brilliant idea of going back another generation, to collect the diaries and papers of a beloved ancestor, who had also been a very senior Advisor in the court of one of the premier Maharajas of South India.
The way to test that is to track back along the branches leading from each existing language, and count the number of splits on each path before you get to the common ancestor of all.
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Brian Greene one of the main proponents of String theory our ancestor were hunters and they needed to see the world in a precise position so they could hunt them.
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His Y chromosome was traced back to the Middle East, possibly an indication of a Jewish ancestor among the many escaping persecution in Portugal and Spain some 500 years ago.
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If the vaccinators did use chimp kidneys to make their polio vaccine in a Congolese lab near what is now called Kisingani, Hahn says would not have been of the subspecies that harbors the pandemic virus ancestor.
The willow bark contained salicin, the pharmacological ancestor of a family of drugs called salicylates, of which aspirin is the most famous.
The ancestor of polo, this traditional game of horsemen is played with a dead goat rather than a ball.
It is not clear how and why the ancestor of elephants left the water for a life on land.
Scientists have tracked the ancestor of HIV to something like a zip code, a remote corner of the West African rain forest.
Such a system, Dr Dale thinks, could be the ancestor of the ribosome and, if wrapped in a fatty membrane, of the cell.
If people in this population meet and breed at random, it turns out that you only need to go back an average of 20 generations before you find an individual who is a common ancestor of everyone in the population.
It is a portrait of his parents, and every ancestor he ever had back to the beginning of Life in the universe.
At the Banko ceremony, three years after the death, the same catafalque is prepared and the living take leave of the deceased, who then becomes an ancestor.
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The abacus is one of the first mechanical counting devices, an ancient ancestor of today's computers.
Mr Marriott is still looking for firm evidence of his ancestor's role in bringing the bird to England.
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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.
It means that its ancestors must have emerged from Africa (where that million-year-old common ancestor would have lived) independently of the migrations which gave rise to Neanderthals and humans.
The common ancestor is, however, too recent for the new species to be a remnant of the first human excursion from Africa, the one that led to Java man and Peking man, now known as Homo erectus.
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