lineage

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Their findings, published in New Phytologist, trace the plant's evolutionary history, reveal how its internal structures have adapted to a parasitic lifestyle, and open new doors for future research into this unusual lineage.

From Science Daily

If there is to be a stubborn print holdout, it seems right that it is Merriam-Webster, which traces its lineage to Noah Webster’s “American Dictionary of the English Language” from 1828.

From The Wall Street Journal

The team concluded that this reduction likely occurred in a common ancestor before the lineage split into multiple species.

From Science Daily

"Any information that can fill in the gaps of what we don't know about dinosaur and bird brains is important in understanding flight and neurosensory evolution within pterosaur and bird lineages," Balanoff says.

From Science Daily

He explains, "Remarkably, Nadja's work showed that bristleworm eyes can also add new photoreceptor cells and expand their size -- a trait that has not been well studied outside the vertebrate lineage."

From Science Daily