ancestors

Everyone lives in a world created substantially before our arrival. Just like today, through history there have been crimes, big and small, committed. Why shouldn't the child of a criminal pay for their parents crime if the family of the criminal benefited from the crime? Why shouldn't a...

I'm reading "The Ancestor's tale" by Richard Dawkins and (at the moment) I am trying to picture what a concestor is. I have no education in these matters, simply curiosity, so I hope I don't ask a dumb question (in the wrong forum too!) I gather a concestor is a creature from whom's immediate...