Sentence examples for distant ancestry from inspiring English sources

They looked more Turkic than Chinese, reflecting distant ancestry in Central Asia.

Her ancestors — and those of all Native Americans — started out in Asia and share a distant ancestry with Chinese people.

Some of the best writing done now is the great conflict reportage that could claim Kapuscinski's work as distant ancestry — Denis Johnson's "Seek" and Dexter Filkins's "The Forever War" leap to mind — but these newer projects tend to be more political than personal.

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Michelle Obama's distant ancestry also includes Irish and other European roots.

Nevertheless, modern genetics now has the capacity to discriminate relationships at an increasingly detailed resolution both in terms of close recent ancestry and distant ancestry.

But in that case, the falsity of animalism entails the rejection of evolutionary theory (or at least that theory's applicability to us), since it denies that our distant ancestries includes beings who were animals.

Mars' mother emigrated to Hawaii from the Philippines as a child, and was of Filipino descent, with distant Spanish ancestry.

In the remaining cases, statistical calculations are necessary to distinguish between allele sharing by descent vs. coincidence (or because of distant shared ancestry).

As depicted by the antigenic and genetic analysis of samples in this report and the earlier work by Arai et al. (4 ), rabies in Sri Lanka is associated with a single lineage of rabies virus, which shares only a distant common ancestry with rabies viruses from any other Asian country.

Some of his acquaintances knew the truth; many more had heard rumors about "distant" black ancestry (wasn't there a grandfather who was black? a great-grandfather?).