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 brain of Ruth could not keep track of all the branches of the ancestral tree; she could only conclude it was stalwart and strong.

From Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance by Coffin, Charles Carleton

It might begin like this: "Oh, have you a family founder, On your ancestral tree, Who laid the corner-stone of Hope On the campus at Del-phee."

From Kit of Greenacre Farm by Forrester, Izola L. (Izola Louise)