What is staying in character? Ancestors are genders in each generation gap of each ancestral lineage to current global population of life living one at a time currently here.
Doesn't change because of plant or animal position, predator or prey nature, asexual, male, female reproduction present in their relative generation gap adapting in space here.
Being the total sum of what they became since conception as an ever changing form that cannot create or destroy the universe in a perpetual balancing situation 24/7 for each reproduction living cradle to grave as typecast by social consensus daily.
History recorded human behavior as socially performed throughout history and recording current events to keep last generation added obeying the same ideas their previous 350 generation gaps created as their social reality.