Ancestry
Ancestry noun - The line of ancestors from whom a person is descended.
Descendants and ancestry are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Descendants" instead a noun "Ancestry".
Descendants
Descendants noun - All of the offspring of a given progenitor.
Ancestry and descendants are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ancestry" instead a noun "Descendants".
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Lazarus takes it to a frankly absurd extreme: it's statistically estimated that over 80 percent of people with Howard ancestry are his descendants — 99+% if you claim a recent Howard ancestor.
- In one source book dealing with different blood ancestry gifts (stuff like having dragon descendants, etc.), Illithid blood powers are in the people who are the Illthids' ancestors.
Source: Abusive Precursors - It comes up on the show that most Betazoid descendants with three-quarters human ancestry do not generally exhibit any psionic ability.
Source: Superpowerful Genetics
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