We suggest that the uniqueness of the founding event is important and test its validity through the examination of two implicit assertions.
Anglicanism's founding event was a sixteenth-century political fix, engineered by Elizabeth I as a means of avoiding the Reformation-era wars tearing at Europe.
In fact, if there is any theme to the sprawling, pleasantly chaotic festival this year (the seventh following the founding event in 1989), it is, well, inclusion.
Theirs is a country whose nationalist myth has as its founding event a defeat -- the Battle of Kosovo, lost to the Turks in 1389.
As of this year, only 5 years after their hustle filled founding event, they are now the proud owners of a mountain.
The founding event of the Jewish people was the greatest slave revolt in history.
Indeed, these communities are long-standing Diaspora communities that have historical records consistent with a founding event, but not a narrow one.
After the founding event in 1978 the population has increased to a size of about 50 adults (range 42 78 since 1989).
The establishment of mitochondria is plausibly the founding event for eukaryotes 47.
Following Wright's island model [ 27], migration-drift equilibrium would be extremely slow to attain in organisms with large population sizes after a founding event [ 12].
Many isolates experience more than one founding event, which can result in population bottlenecks [ 4] or the creation of regional subisolates [ 5].
