ancestral
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Others are concerned by the growing numbers of farmers from outside their ancestral lands who now pretend to be Hadzabe to elicit money from tourists.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
Instead of needing to assume major contributions from an unknown archaic hominin population in Africa, the model shows how patterns in modern DNA could have emerged from structure within ancestral human populations themselves.
From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2026
Like other members of the diaspora, they retain strong ties to India, with many regularly travelling to visit their families or ancestral homes.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026
For the first time in more than 80 years, the fish swam in their ancestral river, where they had once been abundant.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026
He proposed that every feature in a human—height, weight, intelligence, beauty—was a composite function generated by a conserved pattern of ancestral inheritance.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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