Sentence examples for population descended from inspiring English sources

The discovery of Marker 174 among the Andamanese suggests that they too are part of this relict Paleolithic population, descended from the first modern humans to leave Africa.

The Gullah a coastal population descended from South Carolina and Georgia slaves have long fascinated writers and ethnographers as a link between West Africa and African-Americans.

In Trinidad, a former British colony with a polyglot population descended largely from African slaves and South Asian indentured workers, whites make up less than one per cent of the population.

Many of these are still unnamed but are considered the result of the "founder effect" -- a reference to genetic disorders that become unusually common in an insular population descended, like the Amish, from a small group of progenitors.

The Greek Cypriots, who constitute nearly four-fifths of the population, descended from a mixture of aboriginal inhabitants and immigrants from the Peloponnese who colonized Cyprus starting about 1200 bc and assimilated subsequent settlers up to the 16th century.

About 93 percent of Han Chinese carry the variant, as do about 70 percent of people in Japan and Thailand, and 60 to 90 percent of American Indians, a population descended from East Asians.

The Quebec Canadaa) population descends in most part from French immigrants who settled in the St . LawrenceRiver valley during the seventeenth century.

Dinner on Sanibel requires serious strategy, since most of the population descends upon restaurants at the same moment and most don't take reservations.

This has been attributed to a founder effect, in which a population descending from a small number of ancestors has a high rate of a particular genetic trait because one of these ancestors harbored this trait.

However, it is unlikely that any horses left by the Spanish survived, and more likely the current population descends from horses brought to the island in the 18th century by the English.

Due to substantial emigration that occurred in the last century, the population descending from the ancient inhabitants, living in the valley or in the surrounding areas, now includes approximately 3,000 people.