lineage
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Luffy beetles have the dorsal ridge teeth found in this lineage, but their labrum is not completely sclerotized.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
The second unknown lineage became visible when researchers examined genomes from populations in Oceania, including people living across the island nations of the Pacific Ocean.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
"We were actually able to find and map genomic locations in modern humans that are from this ghost lineage and show that this ghost ancestry is in all modern humans, not only in Africans."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
"In the case of the ghost lineage, modern-day Africans and non-African populations both inherited similar amounts of ghost ancestry. Each individual has about 0.5 to 1% of their genome inherited from this ghost lineage."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
It was overlaid with a tracery of flowers and leaves wrought of silver and gold, and on it were set in elven-runes formed of many gems the name Andúril and the lineage of the sword.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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