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 first streaks of dawn were penetrating the forest's darkness when the offended crows left their ancestral tree; and the scouts looked at each other in surprise.
From Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth
The divine and immortal me is older than my ancestral tree; it is as old as the universe.
From An Ambitious Man by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
