Finally, selfing greatly facilitates polyploidization because it allows triploids to be maintained for several generations until stable polyploidy is generated.
His conjecture was a way of stating this observation, but proving it mathematically had defied generations, until Perelman came along.
He served the Le rulers, as his family had done for generations, until their dynasty fell in 1787.
It continued under succeeding generations until the early 20th century, said Mrs. Gerard of the historical committee.
The Makah hunted whales for generations until the 1920's, when commercial whaling decimated the whale population.
"All the generations until 1985 found work — state work, private work," Ousmane Dembelé, a social geographer at the university, told me.
We will probably continue to transmit our guilt down the generations until our great-great-great-grandchildren jump in their spaceships and flee the planet.
For generations until 1684, the maharajah of Kashmir had exclusive rights to the underfur combed from the throat and belly of this cold old goat.
To lift ourselves out of desperation may take generations; until then, lets voice our despairs and find ourselves, and each other, through the common themes of our laments.
There was, in fact, a so-called "Animal Album" by Claude, which was kept in a Roman family for generations until it was sold at auction in 1957.
His great-grandfather edited the Edinburgh Review, though literary aptitude seems to have dwindled down the generations until Empson's birth in 1906.
