They have spent the past decade poring over census returns from America and Britain, identifying families with children in one count, tracking down the same children as adults in another, and thereby building up a multigenerational dataset.
This was when his third novel, "The Corrections", a multigenerational family saga about American yuppies and their square parents, was first selected as a candidate for Oprah Winfrey's book club and then very publicly dismissed by the television star.
In many suburbs, white, nuclear families have been replaced by multigenerational Hispanic ones.
Incorporating theoretical physics and high-flown musicology into a multigenerational saga, he brings us the story of the Strom family gifted, racially mixed, and, inevitably, totally mixed-up.David Strom, a German Jewish physicist recently arrived in the United States, and Delia Daley, an African-American doctor's daughter, meet at Marian Anderson's famous 1939 concert at Washington Mall.
In the same year, Hillis and others established the Long Now Foundation, created to develop a multigenerational perspective on many issues facing civilization.
In most plants, by contrast, the life cycle is multigenerational.
This multigenerational life cycle is called alternation of generations; it occurs in some protists and fungi as well as in plants.
Beyond the Bedroom Wall: A Family Album (1975) is a multigenerational saga of a North Dakota family; Born Brothers (1988) continues the story of Charles and Jerome Neumiller, characters from Beyond the Bedroom Wall who also appear in The Neumiller Stories (1989).
Eusocial species, any colonial animal species that lives in multigenerational family groups in which the vast majority of individuals cooperate to aid relatively few (or even a single) reproductive group members.
In "Gatekeepers," Brown explores multigenerational interdependence, and "Everybody at the Table" riffs on themes of love and community.
His multigenerational quintet includes the saxophonist Dan Blake and the veteran trombonist and educator Hal Crook.
