It had been carefully developed over generations, maintained in common, its riches available to all, and preserved for future generations – practices found today primarily in traditional societies that are under threat throughout the world.
The store's mission statement, displayed prominently above the shelves, explains that most of the items "are traditional goods that have been developed over generations or anonymous design found in general stores, D.I.Y.s and kiosks: products designed not around one personality but the result of local aesthetics and needs".
"You have different plant varietals, soil types, elevations and the local processing techniques that people developed over generations".
He would reverse the understanding developed over generations about the need for Government to stay out of people's religious life.
Already, the original kimchee recipes developed over generations by "anonymous grandmothers" are now fused with European tastes via celebrity chefs staking their claim on fermented vegetables.
Small farms, small communities, even "small" people, who will never headline a news program, but may possess priceless knowledge of a place and a people developed over generations, have slipped from most Americans' radar.
In addition to the effect of the major QTL, the recipient and donor lines were assumed to have developed over generations from a common base generation with a genetic variance.
Has it developed over time?
It developed across generations in Chicago; it's still developing.
Put simply, we're designed to handle sudden, intense crises, not problems that develop over generations.
It develops over long periods of time.
