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
What they took they grafted bodily upon their ancestral tree, which in consequence came to present a most unnaturally diversified appearance.
From The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell
But what you tell me is most curious, for your 'Sieur Amadis' must be the missing branch of my own ancestral tree.
From Innocent : her fancy and his fact by Marie Corelli
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