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
"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
And finally, as the throng were rapidly passing on, it became her settled conviction that she must shake herself into some one's hands, or she would be left to wither forsaken on the ancestral tree.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
