human ancestry
Where we came
Human ancestry refers to the lineage of biological forebears from whom a person or group descends.
The term encompasses both recent family history and deeper evolutionary origins: She traced her human ancestry back to West Africa, The fossil record reveals our human ancestry in East Africa.
In genetic testing, human ancestry typically means ethnic and geographic origins inferred from DNA.
- DNAHereditary code molecule
- ancestorsThose from whom one descends
- paleoanthropologyScience of ancestral human remains
- migrationMovement to new territory
- Homo sapiensScientific name for humans
early humans · genetics · genetic testing · Neanderthals · family tree · Homo erectus · primates · missing link · Lucy · great apes · oral history · hominid · mutation · fire · bipedalism · ethnicity · fossils · fossil record
human ancestryfuture generations
posterity · progeny · offspring · heirs · successors
human ancestrydivine creation
Something fashioned by deity
special creation · spontaneous generation · extraterrestrial origin