relatives

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Scientists increasingly believe that this flexibility may have helped Homo sapiens spread successfully across the world while other human relatives disappeared.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

Erin is the youngest of the relatives at 55 and didn’t become directly involved with his father’s music until he was 14, when he joined Davis on tour in 1985.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Residents survived by wrapping up indoors, turning their balconies into refrigerators and, when possible, staying with relatives.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Throughout the 28-hour operation residents and soldiers looked on, waiting for news of missing relatives.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

A woman poured ashes into a mortar and pounded them as she called the names of Vatete's relatives who lived too far away to attend the funeral.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer