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 classification, which all were seeking, was really the ancestral tree of the animal kingdom.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason

And heaven had spared to me To see one sad, ungathered rose On my ancestral tree.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 by Various