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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

The museum has now announced that a formal decision has been made by the University of Oxford Council to return the 39 ancestral human remains to their homeland.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

First, except for the decorations on the pots, the pots themselves and their associated cultural paraphernalia are similar to the cultural remains found at Indonesian and Philippine sites ancestral to modern Austronesian-speaking societies.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond