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As recently as a decade ago, scientists talked about a direct, unbranching line of descent —Australopithecus, Homo erectus, modern man—one following the other in logical order.

From Time Magazine Archive

As recently as a decade ago, scientists talked about a direct, unbranching line of descent ...

From Time Magazine Archive

The tall, unbranching gray spruce-trunks rose round it like the pillars of a colonnade.

From Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

Too great vigor is indicated by long, leafy, unbranching shoots.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.

They are usually preserved as branching or unbranching carbonized bodies, tree-like, leaf-like or rod-like in shape, their edges regularly toothed or denticulated.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various