This ancestral species might have evolved at a time when the islands were connected.

这种祖先物种可能是在岛屿相连的时候进化而来的。

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Perhaps that is why we explore the starry skies, as if answering a primal calling to know ourselves and our true ancestral homes.

也许这就是我们探索星空的原因，仿佛在回应一种原始的召唤，去了解我们自己和我们祖先真正的家园。

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There's a lot of frying going on at this particular place and this is something that's not typical of ancestral human diets.

在这个地方，有很多油炸食品，但这不是我们祖先的日常饮食。

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Food has changed in a lot of ways from the early ancestral days.

自人类早期起,食品在各方面发生变化

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Wouldn't a later writer have cleaned up this ancestral record if this were in fact something composed at a later period? Also, he notes that the representation of inter-ethnic relationships in the patriarchal stories does not accord with the reality of a later period.

后世的作者难道不会把祖先不光彩的记录抹去吗,如果事实上这故事是后来创作的话？同时，他还提出，宗族故事中所展示的种族间关系,与后世的现实是不相一致的。

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Khalifa Bin Mubarak Al Hinai is in full ceremonial regalia - a long, black ancestral gown and a brightly patterned orange headdress.

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D. in English literature, but his education in ancestral science is a patchwork.

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Speaking of which, I could point out that, should the Sulzbergers wish to sell their prized ancestral heirloom to a Republican billionaire, they would certainly turn first to either Michael Bloomberg or Rupert Murdoch, each of whom has considerably more money, a long record of successful media ownership and more palatable political views.

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