The term ‘ancestor’ is used in anthropology to designate those forebears who are remembered, and to denote specific religious practices as a part of such phrases as ‘ancestor cult’ or ‘ancestor worship’. Which...

If a man falls he blames his ancestors. (Korean) They brag most of their ancestors who are unworthy of them. (Danish) We can scarcely call birth and ancestry, and what we have not ourselves done, our own....

// n. A particular relation that may hold between two nodes in a tree. A node A is an ancestor of a distinct node B iff A dominates B. Cf. mother,...

The term ancestor worship designates rites and beliefs concerning deceased kinsmen. Rites of ancestor worship include personal devotions, domestic rites, the ancestral rites of a kinship group such as a lineage, periodic rites on the death day of the...

An ancestor is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an ancestor (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent, great-great-great-grandparent, great-great-great-great-grandparent, and so forth). Two individuals have a genetic...

Dinosaurs shared the Earth for millions of years with the species that were their ancestors, a new study concludes.Dinosaurs arose in the Late Triassic, between 235 million and 200 million years ago, and came to dominate the planet in the Jurassic, 200 million to 120...

Democrat Barack Obama, who would be the first black president, has white ancestors who owned slaves, according to a genealogical researcher.The researcher, William Addams Reitwiesner, says the discovery is part of his first draft of research into Obama's roots. Obama's father was from Kenya and...

Eighteen years ago, Tony Akeem organized a ceremony in New York City to honor the millions of Africans who died crossing the Atlantic during the slave trade. Similar observances have since spread around the world.On Saturday, offerings of water, honey and rum were poured along...