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Researchers also computationally reconstructed the genome of the ancient ancestor shared by all living bats.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

It begins as a search for other Therouxs in the area around Yamaska, Quebec—the hamlet where his ancestor Antoine dropped anchor with his wife, Marguerite, whom he’d acquired along the way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Paul Theroux’s final travelogue takes him to the land of an ancestor who arrived by ‘dumb luck and good timing.’

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

It is unclear exactly how the sculpture came to be in the Cotswolds, but the family presume it was bought at auction by an ancestor in the mid 1900s.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Eli Harari couldn’t have cared less who had cursed him, what sorry ancestor had been responsible for this fate.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

Modern British royals have expressed remorse for the brutal slave trade that enriched their ancestors, but like the UK government have not issued an official apology for the slave trade.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

While Radev said future generations would now be able to pay homage to their ancestors, Mitsotakis hailed the remains as having "incalculable cultural and spiritual but also emotional value".

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

She then mapped the evolutionary relationships among those sequences and used statistical methods to estimate the most likely genetic sequences carried by their common ancestors, extending the reconstruction back roughly 160 million years.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

It’s hard to disagree, even as we mourn as his final effort this swan song account of Canada, the land of his ancestors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

As I gaze at the enormous sky laced with jagged clouds and so many shining stars, I think of the ancestors who came before me.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar