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In late September, a Kenyan court ordered a pause to construction after more than 100 Lamu residents sued alleging that the refinery threatened ancestral land where they had farmed and buried their families for generations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

The advanced method is known as ancestral sequence reconstruction, which was pioneered by Joseph Thornton, a former UO scientist whose old laboratory space is now occupied by Barber's group.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Adolfina Kum believes communities "lose an important source of strength" when sacred mountains, forests or ancestral places are disturbed.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Scientists track distinct “runs” of salmon in the Sacramento River, each named for when the fish return from the Pacific and swim upriver to their ancestral streams to spawn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Those dates suggest domestication of emmer wheat in the Fertile Crescent, a conclusion supported by the fact that ancestral wild emmer wheat is confined to the area extending from Israel to western Iran and Turkey.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond