ancestral
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His client fled to his ancestral homeland ahead of a mid-September sentencing date, a move that has become the talk of the state’s political class.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The advanced method is known as ancestral sequence reconstruction, which was pioneered by Joseph Thornton, a former UO scientist whose old laboratory space is now occupied by Barber's group.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
Scientists track distinct “runs” of salmon in the Sacramento River, each named for when the fish return from the Pacific and swim upriver to their ancestral streams to spawn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Ireland and the United States have long been close allies, partly because of their common ancestral ties.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 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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