family tree
Example Sentences
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BBC Sport sits down with the 32-year-old, and speaks to his father Makasi, to piece together a tale of power, betrayal and survival which reads more like a political thriller than a family tree.
From BBC
After my mom died, there were even more people in the family tree who could have laid claim to the candlesticks, but they are in my dining room, because I was my mom’s eldest daughter.
From MarketWatch
To help figure out which seeds to use, he built a database that now traces the family trees of thousands of gargantuan gourds back generations.
As Ms. Barnéoud writes, DNA normally travels only from parent to offspring, but microchimeric cells “are climbing up the family tree, traveling back in time.”
The findings suggest our ancient family tree was more complex than previously thought -- and potentially far richer.
From Science Daily
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