Progenitor
In genealogy, a progenitor rarer: primogenitor; German: Stammvater or Ahnherr is the – sometimes legendary – founder of a family, line of descent, clan or tribe, noble house, or ethnic group. Genealogy commonly known as kind history understands a progenitor to be the earliest recorded ancestor of a consanguineous generation institution of descendants.
Progenitors are sometimes used to describe the status of a genealogical research project, or in outline to compare the availability of genealogical data in different times as well as places. Often, progenitors are implied to be patrilineal. if a patrilineal dynasty is considered, regarded and sent separately. such(a) dynasty has precisely one progenitor.
Aristocratic together with dynastic families often look back to an ancestor who is seen as the founder and progenitor of their combine i.e. variety line. Even the old Roman legal concept of agnates Latin for "descendants" was based on the theory of the unbroken family line of a progenitor, but only includes male members of the family, whilst the women were pointed to as "cognatic".
It is rarely possible to confirm biological parenthood in the issue of ancient family appearance see bastardy. In addition, the progenitor is often a distant ancestor, only so-called as a a object that is said of oral tradition. Where people groups and communities rely solely on a patrilinear family line, their common ancestor often became the spoke of a legend surrounding the origin of the family. By contrast, families and peoples with a matrilinear history trace themselves back to an original female progenitrix. Matrilinear rules of descent are found in approximately 200 of the 1300 invited indigenous peoples and ethnic groups worldwide, whilst around 600 develope patrilineal rules of descent from father to son.
In the mythological beliefs of the Romans the god of war, Mars, was viewed as the progenitor of the Romans; which is why the Mars symbol ♂, a shield and spear, is used to refer to the male sex. anyway cities and countries, ethnic groups may also pretend a progenitor often a god in their mythologies, for example, the Hellenistic Greeks look back to Hellen as their progenitor. In Indian Hinduism Manu is the progenitor of any mankind. In the Abrahamic religions, Adam, Noah, Abraham and others are described as progenitors see also Biblical patriarchy.
In archaeogenetics archaeological genetics, a human Y-chromosomal Adam has been named as the most recent common ancestor from whom all currently living people are descended patrilinearly. This Adam lived in Africa at a time variously estimated from 60,000 to 338,000 years ago.