Buddhism says that the first ancestor of mankind came from the Heaven of Light-Sound.

问：佛教里说：“人的始祖，是从光音天来的。”

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This is a piece of heroic myth, but not the first ancestor myth in strict significance.

这是一则英雄神话而不是严格意义上的始祖神话。

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Mentioned Xie Lingyun, we can think immediately he is China "the scenery poem first ancestor".

提到谢灵运，我们马上会想到他是中国“山水诗鼻祖”。

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His first name commemorates an ancestor, John Endicott, who was the state's first colonial governor.

ECONOMIST: Endicott Peabody

The abacus is one of the first mechanical counting devices, an ancient ancestor of today's computers.

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The common ancestor is, however, too recent for the new species to be a remnant of the first human excursion from Africa, the one that led to Java man and Peking man, now known as Homo erectus.

ECONOMIST: A new species of human