ancestral
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Their streamlined, fusiform bodies combined features characteristic of hexapods and insects with more primitive ancestral traits.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
"This is our ancestral land," she told the BBC.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Plainclothes officers cordoned off Zhu’s ancestral home in the landlocked Hunan province and turned away visitors who came to lay flowers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The island's isolation -- 2,000 kilometres east of the capital Jakarta -- has helped preserve these ancestral social structures.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of ancestral cells and the linking of ancestral organisms in symbiosis.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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