Showing posts with label Common Ancestor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Common Ancestor. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

甘棠下

My historian friend told me that my ancestor 甘棠下 probably moved South to 江門 棠下鎮 from 南雄珠磯巷 in Northern 廣東 during 1265-1275 when the Mongols crossed the Yangtze River.

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Our Tiny Ancestor

Copyright - The Times, May 15, 2007

Let's take a hard look at our family tree. We're Africans, after all.

PS: I think there's a typo in The Times article: "Aegyptopithecus zeuxis, which probably resembles the common ancestor of New World monkeys and apes, lived about 29 million years ago." The correct version ought to be: "Aegyptopithecus zeuxis, which probably resembles the common ancestor of Old World monkeys and apes, ..."