ancestral
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A sweeping genetic analysis is challenging one of the simplest versions of the human origin story: the idea that all modern humans arose from a single ancestral population in Africa.
From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 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
Every year during the breeding season, the volunteers work to help toads cross the busy A525 from their land habitat to their ancestral breeding ground at the reservoir.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 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
Once more Edward Ashton lifted his eyes to the ancestral portraits.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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