ancestor
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I teach my students about Didion’s ancestor, Nancy Hardin Cornwall, who trekked westward with the Donner-Reed party in 1846.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
Scientists are still unsure whether these shared traits come from a common ancestor or from similar environmental pressures shaping their evolution.
From Science Daily • May 1, 2026
Again the reigning successor to George III will be obliged to say nice words about the men his ancestor would gladly have hanged from the nearest tree.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026
"It's mind-boggling that our pineal gland's ability to regulate our sleep according to light stems from the cyclopean median eye of a distant ancestor 600 million years ago," concludes Dan-E Nilsson.
From Science Daily • Apr. 27, 2026
The smallest and oldest, he proclaimed, were maize’s true wild ancestor, which Indians had then crossed with Tripsacum to make modern maize.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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