An ancestor or ancestor is called an ancestor.
An ancestor is an ancestor, ancestor, or precursor . The concept comes from the French word ancestor , in turn derived from the Latin antecessor .
For example: “My girlfriend has Hungarian ancestors,” “You should respect the culture of your ancestors,” “The young man was embarrassed to discover that he has a Nazi ancestor.”
What is an ancestor
A person's ancestors are their ascending line relatives : the great-great-grandparents, great-grandparents, grandparents and parents of an individual, therefore, are the individual's ancestors. The notion is usually used with reference to the most distant ancestors, which the subject did not know.
Sometimes, the idea is associated with a group of individuals who, in some way, are linked to the person. Ancestors, in this framework, can be a town , a clan , an ethnic group or a tribe .
A family tree is a diagram that reflects the ancestors of a family.
Family tree and heraldic shield
In many families, in order to know their origin and history in depth, it is common to resort to the creation of so-called family trees . These are documents where, using a clear diagram, the oldest known relatives are recorded and, from those, their marriages, their children, their brothers, their nephews, etc.
In the same way, in order to have knowledge of the ancestors and even their power or the position they occupied , heraldic shields also play an essential role.
Ancestor Veneration
Throughout history , it has been common for ancestors to be venerated and valued by new generations. In fact, in several cultures there is a cult of ancestors that is based on the belief that deceased relatives survive in a new dimension and can exert influence on the earthly world.
In today's world, however, positive values are often attributed to youth and modernity. In this way, ancestors lose importance in cultural and social consideration.
The concept in biology
If we focus on the field of biology , it is said that two individuals maintain a genetic link when they have a common ancestor or if one of these individuals is the ancestor of the second.
It is curious to know that, although research continues on what the origin of humanity is, the truth is that among the studies carried out it has been established that possibly the ancestor of all living beings was a bacteria that had less than 600 genes . This has been announced by a group of molecular evolutionists who belong to the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) in Bethesda ( United States ).
That bacteria, as they have stated, has been named LUCA . Scientists have stated that it had autonomous life and that it had 572 genes, although its descendants later increased these genes.