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

I am 'the last ungathered rose on my ancestral tree.'

From In the High Valley Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series by Coolidge, Susan

Now all this, except, perhaps, the "ancestral" tree, is a direct picture, and with it some men might stop.

From Adventures in Criticism by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir