ancestry
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Modern taxonomy, the science of naming and classifying organisms, increasingly attempts to reflect actual evolutionary relationships by grouping species according to shared ancestry.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Eleven of the 30 children have now taken commercial DNA tests which show they have inherited genetic ancestry from Turkey or surrounding countries.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
But the Constitution subjects race or ancestry quotas to an extraordinarily high level of judicial scrutiny.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
"We found that these contributions are widespread throughout the genome, and ghost ancestry is detected even in regions previously thought to be intolerant of Neanderthal and Denisovan ancestry."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
In the late 1970s several scientists realized that an ethnic group’s mitochondrial DNA could provide clues to its ancestry.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
But Prof Kumaresan says that more research is needed to properly establish the ancestries of Keeladi's residents.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025
This highlights an urgent need for genetic studies that better represent diverse ancestries.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024
Harris’ own blended ethno-racial background of Jamaican and Indian ancestries was a consequence of her parents' freedom.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2024
Census making it easier in 2020 to identify multiple racial and ethnic ancestries, the percentage of multiracial Americans blossomed to 33.8 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024
They have all been uprooted from their several soils and ancestries and plunged together into one vortex, whirling irresistibly in a space otherwise quite empty.
From Character and Opinion in the United States by George Santayana
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