ancestry

IPA: ˈænsɛstri

Examples of "ancestry" in Sentences

Your ancestry is from Africa and now you live in America.
It refutes your position that ancestry is not a characteristic.
To apologize or compensate people because of their ancestry is ridiculous.
With clades the ancestry is assumed depending on shared characteristic traits.
That everybody (that looks like of Latin ancestry most likely) is presumed GUILTY, not INNOCENT.
Their common ancestry is both the materials used and the creative impetus that caused them to come into being.
Obviously African-American ancestry is different from Irish-American ancestry and we would expect some statistical differences.
Like so many contemporary people Alice's ancestry is mixed: African, Native American, European, and yet it is Africa that seems to have a permanent call to her heart.
You've argued above, following Woese's theory, that at the "Darwinian threshold" molecular homology becomes a reliable indicator of vertical descent (i.e., common ancestry from a discrete cell).