archaic
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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 Karen Barwick though, he questions the need to string them up calling it "archaic".
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026
It is widely considered the oldest archaic primate.
From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026
Despite the archaic language, it has the simplicity of a sea shanty.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
It was almost lunchtime, and the earliest arrivals were drifting into the headquarters mess halls, the enlisted men and officers separating into different dining halls on facing sides of the archaic rotunda.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing archaic
100 SAT Words Beginning with "A"
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Play by the Rules: Arch
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Grade 9, List 2
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