Sentence examples for historical descent from inspiring English sources

By reconstructing past post-marital residence states, we compare transition rates and models of evolution across groups, while integrating the historical descent relationships of human societies.

Fig. 3 Phylogenies indicate both relatedness and historical descent.

In short, trees can convey our ideas of the historical relationships that exist among entities that share a common history and serve to organize and summarize where and how information has changed during historical descent.

The idea of affinities and the recognition that affinities were the result of common historical descent would introduce evolutionary thought, first in linguistics, and later in the rest of the natural sciences of the nineteenth century.

The field of genealogy would flourish in both the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and it is one of the major fields responsible for the use of tree iconographies to show kinship relations and common historical descent of divine and earthly families (Bouquet 1996).

As a result, evolution defined as a historical process of descent with modification has long been accepted as a fact by the scientific community.

Today, phylogenetics the science of constructing and evaluating hypotheses about historical patterns of descent in the form of evolutionary trees—has become pervasive within and increasingly outside evolutionary biology.

Second, the results of protein phylogenetic analyses suggest that extensive genetic exchange has taken place between the L. acidophilus and L. johnsonii lineages, giving rise to a closer apparent relationship than expected on the basis of 16S rRNA phylogeny which depicts the historical lines of descent of these species.

To use the language of "remembrance" about the battle that ended the Napoleonic age is an absurd descent into historical bathos.

Lawson zips through the historical context, tracing our descent from plain consumers into decadent turbo-consumer society back to the work of Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek in the 1930s.

Through the force of Darwin's argument and the mass of supporting data he presented, it was not long before the contemporary scientific community came to acknowledge the historical reality of evolutionary descent.