Today, between parents, siblings, cousins and their offspring, his local clan numbers 56.
The Mekdad clan numbers in the thousands in Dara'a, where the uprising began, and includes government supporters and opponents.
And now that the royal clan numbers roughly 7,000 princes, there are also questions about how much longer some members can treat the kingdom like their private club.
But the entire Piramal clan, numbering 40 in all, lives together as a huge extended family, discussing business and family affairs over every meal.
A comparison of the number of genes in each of the CYP clans from D. pulex, silkmoth (Bombyx mori), human (Homo sapiens), pufferfish (Fugu rubripes), honeybee (Apis mellifera), sea urchin (Stronglyocentrotus purpuratus), and fruitfly (Drosophila melanogaster) indicates both subtle and demonstrative differences in CYP clan numbers between species (Fig. 4).
In some tribes the clans number 40 or more, as among the Mundurukú; they are generally organized into two groups so that the whole tribe comprises two exogamous moieties.
But violent clan disputes are up too.A handful of large clans, numbering up to tens of thousands of people, and a sprinkling of smaller ones hold sway in various parts of Gaza.
Thornton, who co-wrote the film as well as directed it, makes great play out of the culture clash between these three and his Alabama-residing clan (which number Robert Duvall, Kevin Bacon, Robert Patrick and Thornton himself).
Among these 88 clans, the number and branch location where duplication and loss events occurred could be unambiguously inferred for 54 clans.
And, just as writers are engrossed in the making of them, readers are profoundly moved and also influenced by the nonexistent, that great clan whose numbers increase prodigiously with every publishing season.
