"Ancestral lineage" refers to the direct line of ancestors or the family tree tracing back to earlier generations. It represents the chain of one's biological or genetic heritage that connects them to their ancestors and their roots.
Sentences with «ancestral lineage»
Today many scientists hope for biological categories that consist of a single ancestral lineage and all its evolutionary descendants. (sciencenews.org)
This «Paternal Haplotype» tab is for deep ancestral lineage going back thousands of years. (my.embarkvet.com)
The process of adaptive radiation, in which one ancestral lineage adaptively diversifies into multiple ecologically distinct species, may underlie much of the diversity of organisms on earth. (amnat.org)