descendants

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Also, descendants of the Donners, Kit Carson, the enslaved, the indigenous and the crazily ambitious, innovative and visionary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Four descendants of Erebus crew members, including a relative of Captain Franklin, will be at the exhibition launch, as well as a relative of David Young.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

But when their descendants reached Australia about 20 million years ago, something remarkable happened: they grew them back.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

Some of the Rubén’s direct descendants would win the award once again 30 years later.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

In the years following 9500 BC, the descendants of the Natufians continued to gather and process cereals, but they also began to cultivate them in more and more elaborate ways.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari