Part of the reason was that they had a legend about how their ancestors had possessed a script but lost it.

The ancestors of modern Chinese people possessed a unique attitude towards small creatures, which is preserved in present-day culture of flower, bird, fish, insect.

When angered or troubled, the ancestors will possess people in the family in order to verbally communicate with their family.

More precisely, it is shared by two or more taxa and their most recent common ancestor, whose own ancestor in turn does not possess the trait.

This ancestor also probably possessed a plastid but it is presently not clear whether it was photosynthetic.

The gifts our ancestors possessed, the magic they could conjure, set them apart, made them different, incomprehensible to those without the gifts.

My ancestors were noble Saxons, and possessed large domains in Lusatia.

It is almost an historic certainty," he continued, "that our ancestors possessed great ships which navigated the air.

Alternatively, this ancestor may have possessed only a diffuse nerve net or several bundles of nervous tissue with no distinct dorsoventral localization.

The gang wakes up later and find Mrs. Grubwort, who says that her evil ancestor has possessed Velma.