Some loci are ubiquitous and, after an ancient origin through transposition, originated through descent from the ancestral trypanosomatid.
Kennedy was not of ancient Puritan descent: quite the contrary, he was from a Catholic, Irish background, the grandfathers and cousins being Murphys, Hannans, Hickeys, Fitzgeralds.
African, East Asian, and Indian Jews tend to be closer to their neighbors, although they too have ancient Jewish descent and cultural continuity with their Middle Eastern source population.
The studies show that the descendants of the Anusim of Iberia 19.88% of modern Iberia), the Bene Israel and Cochin Jews of India, Beta Israel of Ethiopia, and a portion of the Lemba people of southern Africa, while more closely resembling the local populations of their native countries, have some ancient Jewish descent.
Comparative analysis of genomes and of protein sequences paints a picture of an ancient origin of the GFP-family proteins and their evolution by vertical descent followed by frequent gene loss.
Homology is basically similarity due to descent of information from a common ancestor to its descendants, and sharing homologous similarities may signal unique ancestry or it may signal more ancient ancestry.
It is often reported in newspaper accounts that the fair is of ancient and royal descent.
The ancient royal line of the West Saxons provided an acceptable alternative, especially as they (wrongly) claimed descent from the seventh-century king and saint, Oswald, who was venerated in Germany.
These are just a handful of the ancient lines of cultural descent examined in THE CLASSICAL TRADITION (Belknap/Harvard University, $49.95), a heady, hefty new single-volume reference work aptly described by its publisher as "a discursive guide to antiquity and its reverberations".
