Sentence examples for models of descent from inspiring English sources

This form of hierarchical branching-descent-group organization with territorial overtones was found in most Polynesian societies, with appropriate variations for local environmental conditions, cultural history, and, as noted in the previous section, the opportune use of bilateral models of descent.

Ever since the publication of The Origin of Species, anthropologists and archaeologists have been in turns enchanted and repulsed by the idea that cultural diversity can be explained by a Darwinian model of descent with modification.

The results of these analyses suggest that the majority of similarities among Iranian tribal material culture assemblages can be explained by a tree-like model of descent with modification.

The efficacy of the practice condition effects is considered in relation to the theoretical influence of stochastic perturbations in models of gradient descent learning of multiple dimension landscapes.

There have been models of Asian descent in the past.

Philomena Kwao, a British-born model of Ghanaian descent, used to be signed to Ford, the 70-year-old behemoth that once helmed the careers of Christie Brinkley, Elle Macpherson, and even a young Martha Stewart.

Each trait was fitted in a multiple linear regression model to the probability matrix of descent from each founder, including sex and age as covariates.

To derive our model, we first introduce the concept of descent graph and define an inheritance-generating function between a pair of alleles in a descent graph.

His beauty ideal was the fierce, androgynous French model Farida Khelfa; her appearance in his shows was the first time that a model of North African descent had had such prominence.

She is the first model of South Asian descent to be in Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue, and like banks she hopes one day to shift from model to mogul.

It is a common finding that SNPs explain less variance than the classical heritability estimates [ 27, 28], which is attributed to causal variants having lower minor allele frequency than the genotyped SNPs [ 15], insufficient modeling of Identity By Descent by SNPs [ 16], and incomplete linkage disequilibrium (LD) between causal variants and genotyped SNPs [ 15].