descendants

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

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

That was until BBC teams tracked down his descendants in Central Asia, far away from Jersey in the far east of Uzbekistan.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

If the Y chromosome from these remains matches that of living descendants, it would strengthen historical records and family lineage reconstructions.

From Science Daily • May 4, 2026

Mr. Wyman ends “Lost Worlds” by asking us to imagine what our descendants five or six millennia in the future might say of us based on the material debris of our daily lives.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

The modern Maori are descendants of Polynesian farmers who colonized New Zealand around A.D.

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