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
But DNA tests have revealed he has Turkish and southern European ancestry instead.
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
Jeff, 62, who has UK citizenship from his Scottish ancestry, is currently in Wrexham house-hunting, while Janice, 65, is in the USA selling their home and awaiting her visa.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Some companies tell customers that their test results indicate they have Native ancestry.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
But Prof Kumaresan says that more research is needed to properly establish the ancestries of Keeladi's residents.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025
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
Together with the mix of ancestries, that suggests that at least in Bréviandes, the newcomers didn’t aggressively take over.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 19, 2024
Their disparate ancestries blended through a natural vitality that accelerated human evolution so as to survive in a radically new environment.
From The Universe — or Nothing by Meyer Moldeven
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