Even so, we've dabbled in dynasties from the beginning, when the Lee family, of Virginia, got to work spawning two signers of the Declaration of Independence, three governors, two senators, nine members of Congress, and four Confederate generals, including Robert E. (The Lees' Washington, Randolph, and Harrison in-laws won some elections, too).
But the vast bureaucracies that both have spawned have chafed at the idea of working in harness.
This, the sharp end of colonial trade, had wider political ramifications, for the dockers' harsh working conditions spawned aggressive and eventually effective trade unions.
That work spawned decades of mutational studies and quantum modeling in search of potential GGCX active site residues shown to affect enzymatic activity.
"It would be sacrilege," petitioners whined, as if a man who delighted in reinvention would have been bothered by his work spawning more of it following his death.
But now, in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon, Dr. Hellman and others whose work spawned the commercialization of high-level cryptography are wondering if they did the right thing.
Berger's early work spawned a generation, and then another and another, of professional futurists.
It has spawned a raft of committees, working groups and support organisations.
For this method, spawn that comes in the form of sawdust mix works better than spawn plugs.
You'd think that with the futuristic and gravity defying creations they spawn, architects would be leading the vanguard of efficient working practices.
