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The novel’s second paragraph makes reference to a stillborn son between the daughters Anne and Mary, a brother and heir whose existence would have spared the Elliot family removal from their ancestral home.
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One line of argument suggested that ancestral baleen whales were suction feeders and that this led to the loss of teeth and the subsequent evolution of baleen.
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A Lugo descendant owned and managed the trailer park and lived in the ancestral home until the early 1980s.
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Her children spread her genetic legacy through the Neandertal lineage, and in time her African mtDNA completely replaced the ancestral Neandertal mtDNA.
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Diana is buried on the grounds of Althorp estate, her family's ancestral home in the countryside near Northampton in central England.
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Dragonstone is the ancestral home of the Targaryens—meaning Daenerys definitely goes home finally.
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The researchers also showed that ancestral chromosome 20 is completely conserved in primates, but very much changed in goats and cows because of rearrangements within chromosomes.
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Kashmiris resisting the Indian military’s occupation, tribal communities fighting to protect their ancestral lands.
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First Known Use of ancestral
15th century
ANCESTRAL Defined for Kids
ancestral
playDefinition of ancestral for Students
: of, relating to, or coming from an ancestor They visited their ancestral home.
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