ancestral tree
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Sea lions don’t naturally adapt their calls to external stimuli in the wild, although seals do, which share an evolutionary root with sea lions more than 20 million years up the ancestral tree.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025
We're actually going to go down to Florida and bring along the ancestral tree and show my great uncle.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2024
In 1845, another branch of the Georgia Peach ancestral tree came to the U.S. from China.
From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2021
The brain of Ruth could not keep track of all the branches of the ancestral tree; she could only conclude it was stalwart and strong.
From Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance by Charles Carleton Coffin
This took the form of a monophyletic ancestral tree.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
