Put simply, at a broad level our expectations are different from those of our forebears.
Simultaneously, generational differences between noble fathers and sons led the latter to create an individual style very different from that of their forebears.
They differed from their putative forebears by approaching psychiatric treatment within the framework of an autonomous mind.
The diet of our forebears is always a matter of general interest, but to the nutritionist it is of more practical interest.
For many centuries our forebears were free to abandon their children, although child abandonment elicits strict legal punishment today.
These bridge the gap between the mistakes and discoveries of our forebears, and our own daily lives and surrounds.
Surely the work of our forebears is more valuable to us than old wine.
Consequently, we would expect to find left-cerebral control of vocalization, but not right-handedness, in the earlier hominids or their primate forebears.
