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

The family of expositions with which we are directly concerned is, like others of plebeian origin, at some loss as to the roots of its ancestral tree.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various

"It strikes me, though, you would not object to the stupid if a good plum should fall down on your head from an ancestral tree."

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 by Various