Ancestors in example sentence

By the time the last Neanderthal disappeared in Europe, 27,000 years ago, our direct ancestors had already, and for 5,000 years, been crawling into the belly of the earth, where in the light of the flickers of tallow candles, they had brought into being the great art of the Upper Paleolithic.

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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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