ancestor
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How am I supposed to toss away the songs our ancestors passed on to us from the time they fled Spain?
From Literature
More than 10,000 years ago, people living in the southwestern United States carried a wild ancestor of the modern potato across long distances.
From Science Daily
New research suggests that the giant ancestors of modern kangaroos may not have been as limited in their movement as once believed.
From Science Daily
Recent discoveries about similar art-filled caves in France suggest that our ancestors were creating more than murals and pointillism beneath the primordial mists.
After the split between human and chimpanzee lineages around 7 million years ago, early human ancestors followed a complex evolutionary path that eventually led to the emergence of Homo sapiens roughly 300,000 years ago.
From Science Daily
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