distant past

These findings not only provide a window into the distant past but also illustrate how genetic traits beneficial for survival and well-being can vanish over time.

In the case of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, many scholars argue, the destruction and alteration of the natural environment not only deprives Palestinians of resources they need to survive, but also erases evidence of their historical existence or relegates it to the distant past.

Until recently, details about this group's most distant past have been elusive.

A long-silent voice from a distant past — eerie and reverberating — awakens in the climate-controlled, antiseptic chambers of a Paris museum.

Over the last few years, popular culture has been offering sympathetic reappraisals of scandal-plagued women from the not too distant past like Monica Lewinsky, Britney Spears and Pamela Anderson.