ancestral
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The advanced method is known as ancestral sequence reconstruction, which was pioneered by Joseph Thornton, a former UO scientist whose old laboratory space is now occupied by Barber's group.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
Ireland and the United States have long been close allies, partly because of their common ancestral ties.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
Among the museum's Naga collection - which contains several thousand items - are 219 items are listed as human remains, 39 ancestral human remains and 178 objects that are thought to contain human hair.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The museum has now announced that a formal decision has been made by the University of Oxford Council to return the 39 ancestral human remains to their homeland.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The modern llama arose similarly, by descending from a giant ancestral beast.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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