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

And really I'm interested in genealogy, too, and I've been thinking for some time I'd go digging about the roots of my ancestral tree.

From Oh, Money! Money! by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)

Inbreeding means the reduction of the number of branches in the ancestral tree, and this means the reduction of the number of chances to get variation, be they good or bad.

From The Dollar Hen by Hastings, Milo M. (Milo Milton)