One cannot cast dispersions on modern culture, which is nothing more than the direct offspring of the past.
Examples abound, beginning with the Miles Davis Nonet (1948 50)—a direct offspring in instrumentation and musical intent of the Thornhill band.
In much the same way as I still cannot believe Eddie Izzard ran 43 marathons in 51 days – a feat that should not be possible unless you are the direct offspring of Atalanta herself – I still cannot believe that David Walliams swam a) the Channel (in 2006) or b) 140 miles of the river Thames (last year, for Sport Relief).
The first of them, "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964), was the direct offspring of Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo," which, in turn, was a first cousin once removed of Dashiell Hammett's "Red Harvest," a novel whose protagonist, with a heart like a corn husk, was known only as the Continental Op.
The helping traits are preserved and proliferate through relatives, not direct offspring: kin selection.
As you may tell, this whole piece is the direct offspring of having just opened my own, personal Pandora's Box of emotional baggage.
The researchers considered the possibility that Denisova 11 was not the direct offspring of a Denisovan and a Neanderthal, but one member of a mixed Neanderthal-Denisovan population at the cave.
Animals for this experiment were the direct offspring from field collected females originating from a banana plantation in Carnarvon, Western Australia.
For example, Swain and Bishop-Hurley (2007) investigated maternal behaviours using proximity loggers to reveal that maternal behaviours extended beyond direct offspring.
The dam J, bull B, 255 direct offspring of bulls A, B, and C and eight other direct and indirect offspring of cow J were examined.
We see at play, in principle but increasingly also in practice, an expansion of the concept of responsibility that reaches well beyond the individual and her direct offspring, fostering the materialization of new bonds among generations.
