Anyway, the Notebaert is the modern, populist offspring of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, one of those vintage specimen houses that featured insects pinned to boards and snakes preserved in Mason jars.
A modern-day offspring of the rickshaw, they are an everyday sight in Manhattan where athletic youngsters haul tourists to this museum, to that restaurant, to Times Square and a show, but this may well be the only pedicab in Brooklyn.
Though inter-breeding was not utterly disastrous, the mixed offspring of modern humans and Neanderthals did not, in general, fare well.
Modern constitutional law is the offspring of nationalism as well as of the idea that the state must protect certain fundamental rights of the individual.
Kutsher's Tribeca on Franklin Street was designed for a downtown crowd that still craves Jewish home cooking: it bills itself as a modern Jewish bistro, the hip offspring of the original Kutsher's Country Club resort in the Catskills.
I was born into the sort of Jewish clan that, in the space between my parents' generation and mine, shrank from a crowd of Eastern European cousins and their offspring to the modern nuclear bundle: my parents, my grandmother, my aunt and her husband at the Passover table, listening to me recite the Four Questions well into my college years.
Hip-hop music, like all American modern pop music, is the offspring of a background of violence, materialism, and extreme sexism.
Here we examine whether specific forms of preventable death (accidents/suicides, alcohol-related causes, and other preventable diseases) are predicted by marital status and dependent offspring in a modern developed context; that of Northern Ireland.
Nor, they say, is it worthwhile to ask whether a particular behavior is adaptive -- in the sense of producing more offspring -- in the modern world.
They asked both parents and offspring questions based on modern tests for diagnosing autism.The result was that almost a third of her volunteers looked, from the modern point of view, misclassified.
