Ancestors in example sentence

Now, the original title of this session was, "Everything You Know Is Wrong," and I'm going to present evidence that this particular part of our common understanding is wrong, that, in fact, our ancestors were far more violent than we are, that violence has been in decline for long stretches of time, and that today we are probably living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.

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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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