In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

The Senoi appear to be a composite group, with approximately half of the maternal DNA lineages tracing back to the ancestors of the Semang and about half to later ancestral migrations from Indochina.

The cultural ancestors appear to have been associated with or part of the Luwian political entity of Arzawa ; yet Lydian is not part of the Luwian subgroup ( as is Carian and Lycian ).

A few of the early animals appear possibly to be ancestors of modern animals.

In a phenetic analysis, the large degree of overall similarity found among the Corvida will make them appear to be monophyletic too, but their shared traits were present in the ancestors of all songbirds already.

Some introns appear to have significant biological function, possibly through ribozyme functionality that may regulate tRNA and rRNA activity as well as protein-coding gene expression, evident in hosts that have become dependent on such introns over long periods of time ; for example, the trnL-intron is found in all green plants and appears to have been vertically inherited for several billions of years, including more than a billion years within chloroplasts and an additional 2 – 3 billion years prior in the cyanobacterial ancestors of chloroplasts.

The ancestors of this group appear to have been photosynthetic.

In some ancestry charts, an individual appears on the left and his or her ancestors appear to the right.

A polyphyletic ( Greek for " of many races ") group is one characterized by one or more homoplasies: character states which have converged or reverted so as to appear to be the same but which have not been inherited from common ancestors.

However, the rather basal position that Tylopoda appear to have among the even-toed ungulates and relatives means that the oldest members of this lineage are still morphologically very primitive and hard to distinguish from the ancestors of related lineages.

Ray Whritenour, a philologist, says that the term does not appear in any sources from the 18th century, but is a modern name coined by Nora Thompson Dean ( Touching Leaves Woman ) in 1984, in order to provide the archaeologist / author, Herbert C. Kraft, with a convenient term for the area once inhabited by ancestors of the Lenape people.

No Dwarves of these lines appear in the tales ; however, as noted below, the Longbeards may be formed out of Dwarves from all lines, and Dwarves from Durin's Folk may therefore have ancestors from these other lines.

Cognates of this set of twins appear as the first mortals, or the first gods to die, sometimes becoming the ancestors of everyone and / or king ( s ) of the dead.

Now drunk, the portraits of his ancestors appear to awaken, singing a song reminding him of his duties, a refrain of noblesse oblige forming the chorus.

Masks appear at burials to observe on behalf of the ancestors that proper burial procedures were carried out.

Many ancestors of characters from other novels in the series appear in this story.

The Ansiwiz similar to the Roman Dii Consentes appear as a limited circle of powerful beings, deities or remote ancestors.

However, the anthracothere ancestors of hippos do not appear in the fossil record until millions of years after Pakicetus, the first known whale ancestor.

They appear more snakelike than their mundane ancestors, appearing somewhat elongated, with venomous fangs.

The other most common image in the petroglyphs are grinning or grimacing, large eared, primarily zoomorphic “ swaddled infants .” Although they appear to us as " swaddled infants ", they actually represent ancestors who were wrapped in hammocks upon death.

The Olmecs do not appear to be human ( or if they were once Human, it is implied that they have horribly mutated from the fallout of the Nuclear war that destroyed their ancestors ); they are short, thin and have pointed ears and enlarged frontal bones.

Two lineages appear to have arisen from these ancestors.

Gray horses appear in many breeds, though the color is most commonly seen in breeds descended from Arabian ancestors.

This phrase does appear in Genesis 5: 1, but there it introduces a list of descendants rather than ancestors.

In AD 634 Heraclius invited the Chrovates or Chrobati ( ancestors of the Croats ), who lived on the north side of the Carpathians, in what is now southern Poland ( or Galicia ), to occupy the province as vassals of the Empire.

It is clear that widespread respect was paid to animals as the abode of dead ancestors, and much of the cults to dangerous animals is traceable to this principle ; though there is no need to attribute an animistic origin to it.

Cicero expressed extreme pride not only in being a novus homo (" new man "; comparable to a " self-made man ") who became consul even though none of his ancestors had ever served as a consul, but also in having become consul " in his year ".

This extinction of American megafauna has been explained as caused by the arrival of the ancestors of Amerindians ; though most scientists assert that climatic change also contributed.

Alpacas are descended from wild vicuna ancestors, while domesticated llamas are descended from wild guanaco ancestors, though a considerable amount of hybridization between the two species has occurred.

It has been proved, though, that the medieval inhabitants of Pomerania, who were the ancestors of the present Kashubians, did not call themselves Kashubians.

Furthermore, they noted that quill knobs are almost never found in flightless bird species today, and that their presence in Velociraptor ( presumed to have been flightless due to its relatively large size and short forelimbs ) is evidence that the ancestors of dromaeosaurids could fly, making Velociraptor and other large members of this family secondarily flightless, though it is possible the large wing feathers inferred in the ancestors of Velociraptor had a purpose other than flight.

However, in Star of Danger, the Chieri who aids Kennard Alton and Larry Montray, tells them that the Chieri share common ancestors with the Trailmen and the Kyrri, though not with the Terrans.

Rarely was any thought given to the artistic heritage of these cities, though families were sometimes able to protect the church monuments of their ancestors, and in Delft the syndics of the painters ' Guild of Saint Luke were able to rescue the altarpiece by Maarten van Heemskerck, which the guild had commissioned only 15 years earlier.

Echidnas evolved from water-foraging ancestors which returned to living completely on the land, even though this put them in competition with marsupials.

They claim to descend from ancestors in ancient Argos even though they are of a " dark race " ( melanthes ... genos ).

They claim to descend from ancestors in ancient Argos even though they are of a " dark race " ( melanthes ... genos ).

Both ' mulatto ' ( though specific amounts of blood from different ancestors is too lengthy a subject to interject here ) and European Creole groups share many of the same traditions and language into this age, but their socio-economic roots differed in the original period of Louisiana history.

Most academics agree, though, that for the most part, the construction of the enclosure at Great Zimbabwe is attributable to the ancestors of the Shona.

It was thought that the warmblood type, which originated in continental Europe, descended from wild, native proto-warmblood ancestors, called the Forest Horse, though modern DNA studies of early horses have disproven this hypothesis.

Pierre Apollinaire Droubay is also known as Pierre Apollinaire DeRoubaix, even though his ancestors chanded their name to the more Anglicized Droubay while in France.

Narses, moreover, ought not to be accounted a weaker prince than other Persian kings ; thou hast indeed conquered him, but then thou surpassest all other monarchs ; and thus Narses has of course been worsted by thee, though he is no whit inferior in merit to the best of his ancestors.

The original creators of these time portals were thought to be the ancestors of the Sleestak, called Altrusians, though later episodes raised some questions about this.

Their earliest direct ancestors, though not documented by fossils yet, likewise can be assumed to have been contemporaries with the dinosaurs.

His ancestors and family had social ties and connections to the Priesthood in Judea ; Hasmonean Dynasty ; Herodian Dynasty and Julio-Claudian dynasty in Rome, though it is likely that Philo only visited the Temple in Jerusalem once in his lifetime.

Even though the story of " Toward the Light " had started with Johanne and Michael Agerskov's interest in spiritism, they appealed to all spiritists to stop their activities and not to call upon their dead ancestors ' spirits any more.

It is still unclear whether the species in the Acipenser and Huso genera are monophyletic ( descended from one ancestor ) or paraphyletic ( descended from many ancestors )— though it is clear that the morphologically motivated division between these two genera is not supported by the genetic evidence.

So even though they evolved from different ancestors, porpoises and sharks developed analogous structures as a result of their evolution in the same aquatic environment.

It is possibly ( though not certainly ) a little closer related to Cacatua than the Galah, and its lineage diverged around the time of or shortly after the acquisition of the long crest – probably the former as this crest type is not found in all Cacatua cockatoos and therefore must have been present in an early or incipient stage at the time of the divergence of the Major Mitchell's Cockatoo's ancestors.