The Umayyads were descended from a branch of the Quraysh, the Prophet's tribe, known more for expediency than piety.

The Bhutta are descended from a branch of the Suryavanshi Rajput family.

The young duke also held the rank of prince of the blood, however he was descended from a younger branch of the house of Bourbon.

He descended from an old, wealthy equestrian branch of the Octavii family.

In some versions, the race is understood as directly descended from a distinct branch of primates.

But I descended from a branch in which the impulse to bolt was stronger than the desire to stay in the harness, or even to hold the reins.

Ferrers was probably descended from a younger branch of the family of that name seated at Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire.

He descended from a younger branch of the Árpád dynasty.

Instead, lemuriforms may be descended from a very early branch of Asian cercamoniines or sivaladapids that immigrated to northern Africa.

We are simply descended from a slightly different branch of the evolutionary tree.