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

Now all this, except, perhaps, the "ancestral" tree, is a direct picture, and with it some men might stop.

From Adventures in Criticism by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

This is especially necessary in the early part of our ancestral tree, because the fossil record quite fails us.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir