The contemporary Tumbuka are the offspring of a complex intermingling of people of diverse origins.
Yet by the 1960's, the ocean began to roll over Der Bingle, and though he continued to sell millions of records -- chiefly holiday songs -- he had morphed into a grand old man while retaining little of the bite of his contemporary, Louis Armstrong, or his aging offspring, Frank Sinatra.
Contemporary theories of "blending inheritance" proposed that offspring merely struck an average between the characteristics of their parents.
The use of illegitimate children to further political designs was not unusual among medieval kings, but the number of Henry I of England's offspring was remarkable, even by contemporary standards.
No fixed effects other than a general mean were simulated (μ = 0) but offspring were randomly allocated to contemporary groups with size 10 to investigate the effect of fixed effects on the precision of genetic parameters.
Regarding the first issue, parent-offspring conflict over mate choice in contemporary Western populations has been found to contain considerable conflict of interest, as well as some expected overlap, in preferred attributes [28] [31].
Parents of centenarians born in approximately 1870 were sevenfold more likely than their contemporaries to have lived to age 90 99; offspring of centenarian parents showed lower prevalence of age-related disease than age-matched control groups (Atzmon et al. 2004).
Yet it is also brutal, the rapist, the murderer and death-dealing giants are also its offspring" (quoted in Garola Giedion-Welcker, Contemporary Sculpture, Documents of Modern Art, vol. 12, p. 123, George Wittenborn, Inc., New York, 1955).
Ichthyosaurs and other contemporary viviparous species, by contrast, gave birth to multiple offspring.
