Sentence examples for Lineage and descent from inspiring English sources
His books include Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China and Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line.
It gave me real insight into the lives of ordinary people". He wrote his dissertation and his first book, "Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China," on material he uncovered during his stay.
But there was a third alternative a form of transmutation that saw species as discrete and stable, yet connected through successions of births and deaths forming lineages of ancestry and descent of "allied forms"—all attributable to natural causes.
This terminology was coined in pregenomic times to describe bacterial lineages of common ancestry and clonal (asexual) descent but in which replacement of genome fragments by recombination, and drift by neutral genetic mutations, have occurred.
Hierarchies are presented for different modeling lineages and fidelity levels.
These cases are also significant because detecting transfers between eukaryotes is made difficult by poor sampling of many lineages and poor resolution of many phylogenies, both of which impede the distinction between horizontal and vertical descent.
We use the term CF to describe bacterial lineages of common ancestry and apparent clonal (asexual) descent but in which replacement of genome fragments by recombination, selection, and drift by neutral genetic mutations has occurred (Milkman and Bridges 1990).
She's of Indian descent and I'm of Western European lineage.
When we used phylogenetic models that control for similarity between species, due to common descent, and focused on variations within a single lineage (DRB1*03), the positive relationship between different substitution rates and allelic polymorphisms was still robust.
Two members of our in-country team were of the Ghanaian Ashanti descent and conversation with them made clear the largely matrimonial lineage of their tribe.
The warriors generally claimed Arab descent, and many of the zawāyā traced their origins to Amazigh lineages.
