For example, the company is becoming a major player in the software business — seemingly a very distant cousin of those heavy industrial businesses — because it must. (fortune.com)
And, if you know anything about distant cousins in real life, they're usually out of touch with the main family. (startawildfire.com)
Yet even RNA - based organisms would still be distant cousins of our DNA - based selves. (discovermagazine.com)