The store's mission statement, displayed prominently above the shelves, explains that most of the items "are traditional goods that have been developed over generations or anonymous design found in general stores, D.I.Y.s and kiosks: products designed not around one personality but the result of local aesthetics and needs".
"You have different plant varietals, soil types, elevations and the local processing techniques that people developed over generations".
It had been carefully developed over generations, maintained in common, its riches available to all, and preserved for future generations – practices found today primarily in traditional societies that are under threat throughout the world.
Small farms, small communities, even "small" people, who will never headline a news program, but may possess priceless knowledge of a place and a people developed over generations, have slipped from most Americans' radar.
In addition to the effect of the major QTL, the recipient and donor lines were assumed to have developed over generations from a common base generation with a genetic variance.
But the Socceroos have a much stronger sense of who they are as a team, and how they want to develop over the next generation; their example shows that stylistic consistency can easily form the basis of a systematic national plan.
The quietest dog in the study was the African basenji, which almost never barks (the most vocal basenji racked up twenty low-pitched "woof"s in the bone-fight test), a trait the animal is believed to have developed over many generations of hiding from leopards.
She estimates that the flatwing aberration developed over 20 generations, or about 4 or 5 years.
This paper analysis an element of our Arab World and its surrounding traditional architecture, developed over many generations to provide a comfortable microclimate using natural energy: wind-catcher and wind-tower.
The baddest of the bad boys in popular culture today seem to be urban black males, a "gangsta" identity developed over several generations in revulsion against Southern segregationist images of black males as servile, docile, emasculated "Uncle Toms".
