ancestral
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Government departments told AFP they aim to integrate rural areas into the development project, but that Chan's ancestral houses were not culturally significant enough to preserve.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
Among the museum's Naga collection - which contains several thousand items - are 219 items are listed as human remains, 39 ancestral human remains and 178 objects that are thought to contain human hair.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
His mother is a Black American singer-songwriter, raised in Los Angeles with ancestral roots in Tennessee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Our tendency to ascend and reach higher places may reflect a deep ancestral relationship with trees that extends beyond anatomy alone.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
A child was an ancestral composite, but a supremely simple one: one-half from the mother, one-half from the father.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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