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
"I think it's very fitting that the descendants of the men who never made it home are helping to write this new chapter about the expedition."
From BBC • May 26, 2026
Some of the Rubén’s direct descendants would win the award once again 30 years later.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Cuttings have the advantage that, once ancient farmers had found or developed a productive tree, they could be sure that all its descendants would remain identical to it.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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