First+ancestor

  • 11first — [OE] As its st ending suggests, first was originally a superlative form. Its distant ancestor was Indo European *pro, denoting ‘before, in front’ (amongst whose other descendants to have reached English are prime and the prefix proto ). Its… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 12first — [OE] As its st ending suggests, first was originally a superlative form. Its distant ancestor was Indo European *pro, denoting ‘before, in front’ (amongst whose other descendants to have reached English are prime and the prefix proto ). Its… …

    Word origins

  • 13first vested estate — Refers to first estate to vest in heirs after death of ancestor …

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  • 14first vested estate — Refers to first estate to vest in heirs after death of ancestor …

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  • 15Most recent common ancestor — Part of a series on Genetic genealogy Concepts Population genetics Haplogroup/ Haplotype Most recent common ancestor Human mitochondrial DNA haplogroups Human Y chromosome DNA haplogroups Genomics Other Y chromosome haplogroups by po …

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  • 16Lowest common ancestor — This article is about lowest common ancestors in graph theory and computer science. For the common ancestor of a set of species in evolutionary trees, see most recent common ancestor. For a common ancestor of all life forms, see last universal… …

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  • 17Last universal ancestor — The last universal ancestor (LUA), also called the last universal common ancestor (LUCA), the cenancestor or number one in slang, is the hypothetical latest living organism from which all organisms now living on Earth descend. Thus it is the most …

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  • 18Order of the First Families of Virginia — The term First Families of Virginia may refer to the Order of the First Families of Virginia, which is a hereditary society for descendants of the earliest Virginia colonists, or it may be used informally to refer to socially prominent Virginia… …

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  • 19Nice Guys Finish First — (BBC Horizon television series) is a 1986 documentary by Richard Dawkins which discusses selfishness and cooperation, arguing that evolution often favors co operative behaviour, and focusing especially on the tit for tat strategy of the prisoner… …

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  • 20Jared (ancestor of Noah) — Jared (Hebrew: ירד, to descend ) in Judeo Christian religious belief was a fifth generation descendant of the first human beings, the man called Adam and his wife, Eve. His father Mahalalel, great grandson of Seth, was 65 years of age when Jared… …

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