Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal..
Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own..
The theater, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why it is instinctively feared by people who do not want ….
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity..
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own..
Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.
If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the ….
The original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to liv….
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors..
People like to trace their ancestry..
It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry..
Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves..
It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry..
What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?.
It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one..
The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biol….
Heredity is nothing but stored environment..
Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if the hypothesis of ….
Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning natura….
So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to c….
I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry..