ancestral
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Leo is seeking to make these communities feel less isolated and to encourage them to remain in their ancestral lands.
Although many living species share flexible skulls and other advanced traits, only the tuatara still retains a complete lower temporal bar, giving it a more ancestral appearance.
From Science Daily
It is believed that ancestral spirits are able to provide advice and healing through these culturally respected practitioners.
From BBC
The Yurok tribe’s Northern California Condor Restoration Program plays a key role in these efforts by reintroducing condors to the tribe’s ancestral homelands.
From Los Angeles Times
Some ancestral varieties of Mexican corn have already gone extinct, he said, “the product of illegal plantings and uncontrolled and undetected cross-pollination.”
From Los Angeles Times
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