descendent

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Should Hitler's DNA have been examined if his permission - or that of a direct descendent - could not be given?

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025

Evolutionary biologists have long suspected that the diversification of a single species into multiple descendent species -- that is, an "adaptive radiation" -- is the result of each species adapting to a different environment.

From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024

Wearing the black turban of a sayyed, or a descendent of the Prophet Mohammad, and Shi'ite clerical robes, Nasrallah is one of the most prominent figures in the Arab world.

From Reuters • Nov. 2, 2023

Omeasoo, a descendent of the Blackfeet Tribe and a member of the Hopi Tribe, decided to pursue forensic anthropology so she could help find Heavyrunner and other missing Indigenous people.

From Scientific American • Oct. 18, 2023

The duke of Veragua, a direct descendent of Columbus, sat in the fourteenth carriage; the duchess occupied the fifteenth with Bertha Palmer, whose diamonds radiated an almost palpable heat.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson