Ancestors in example sentence

Slapping thighs, shuffling feet and patting hands: this was how they got around the slave owners' ban on drumming, improvising complex rhythms just like ancestors did with drums in Haiti or in the Yoruba communities of West Africa.

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Your distant ancestors loved that shape and found beauty in the skill needed to make it, even before they could put their love into words.

It's a gift handed down from the intelligent skills and rich emotional lives of our most ancient ancestors.

Because, after all, within living memory, they were hunters and gatherers, living pretty much like our ancestors lived for maybe 99 percent of the human story.

And you might think that that was incredibly stupid of our ancestors to be plugging things into a light socket like this.

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