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
Two little red Petticoats all at once to hang on the ancestral tree.
From Ptomaine Street by Carolyn Wells
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