ancestral tree
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Sea lions don’t naturally adapt their calls to external stimuli in the wild, although seals do, which share an evolutionary root with sea lions more than 20 million years up the ancestral tree.
From Salon • Jun. 7, 2025
We're actually going to go down to Florida and bring along the ancestral tree and show my great uncle.
From Salon • Apr. 12, 2024
In 1845, another branch of the Georgia Peach ancestral tree came to the U.S. from China.
From Slate • Jan. 5, 2021
His fathers were traced back, in humble life, along a branch of the ancestral tree to the point where it joined the stem fourteen generations ago, and his heirship was thereby squarely established.
From Following the Equator, Part 5 by Twain, Mark
The dukes of Yemena and counts of Vaza are one of the oldest families of the empire; and their ancestral tree is rooted ages back, before the time of the first emperor of Liparia.
From Majesty A Novel by Couperus, Louis
