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It’s important to note that long before the tick-tock and chiming of clocks, our ancestors — you know, that raggedy bunch dressed in animal fur — had to adapt to seasonal changes in daylight.

Those claims have been challenged by Tribal Alliance Against Frauds, a nonprofit that investigated her background and published a genealogical chart dating back seven generations to 1712 showing no Indian ancestors.

In a tight-knit ethnic group, people are more likely to share common ancestors and genes - whether or not they are first cousins, he says.

From BBC

It’s literally Cole pushing me and the ancestors guiding me to deliver the performance that was needed.

The ancestors of groups that diversified so much during the Cambrian existed before.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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