ancestry
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The sign of Sapiens ancestry as suggested by the authors refers to a very ancient episode, around 250,000 years ago.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
Speaking in Chicago in 1858, Lincoln argued that those who couldn’t trace their ancestry to the revolutionary generation could nonetheless look to the Declaration’s insistence that “all men are created equal.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Hence the trip to Vigo to see her paternal grandparents for the first time so she can authenticate her ancestry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
One of them is Steffanie Castaneda, a 45-year-old from Jupiter, Fla. She began pursuing Italian citizenship five years ago through her family ancestry.
From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026
Genealogists are worked to death winnowing the debris of ancestry for grains of greatness.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
But Prof Kumaresan says that more research is needed to properly establish the ancestries of Keeladi's residents.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025
The blood samples in this dataset were collected from a cohort of 503 healthy donors of diverse Asian ancestries, spanning East, Southeast, and South Asian populations.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024
Census making it easier in 2020 to identify multiple racial and ethnic ancestries, the percentage of multiracial Americans blossomed to 33.8 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024
But I think the biggest challenge is to bring in scientists of diverse ancestries into this—that’s really what we want.
From Science Magazine ● May 23, 2024
They are a merry, well-nourished collection of waifs and strays, of all ancestries, Hindu, Muhammadan, and Christian, mostly gathered in through the wards of the Mission Hospitals.
From Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India by Doren, Alice B. Van
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