descendants

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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

Among them were lagerpetids, small bipedal relatives of dinosaurs whose descendants would eventually evolve into pterosaurs.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

Now Filip Krapels hopes to unravel the story and return it to Stan's descendants in Wales.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

Some of the Rubén’s direct descendants would win the award once again 30 years later.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

A theory favored by many Western archaeologists and Koreans, and unpopular in some circles in Japan, is that the Japanese are descendants of immigrants from Korea who arrived with rice paddy agriculture around 400 B.C.

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