descendants

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Even 2001’s “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” eventually reveals itself as a kind of inverted first-contact story, with humanity becoming the vanished civilization studied by synthetic descendants of the machines.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

Also, descendants of the Donners, Kit Carson, the enslaved, the indigenous and the crazily ambitious, innovative and visionary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Now, three sailors aboard the ship have been identified and living descendants contacted by researchers at the University of Waterloo, in Canada.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

But when their descendants reached Australia about 20 million years ago, something remarkable happened: they grew them back.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

The building is a wonderful brick structure, over a hundred years old, and the bakery is still run by the descendants of George Leidenheimer, an immigrant from Germany.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers