Sentence examples for to descendant from inspiring English sources
noun
One who is the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
- The patriarch survived many descendants: five children, a dozen grandchildren, even a great grandchild.
Further complicating matters is that evolution from ancestral to descendant form is usually a stepwise process.
The individuals that are best equipped to survive and reproduce perpetuate the highest frequency of genes to descendant populations.
Unlike Lamarck, Brocchi thought species are fundamentally stable entities which from time to time give birth to descendant species just as organisms reproduce and give birth to descendant organisms.
Continuity from ancestral to descendant species is a concept that is present in evolutionary trees, but that may not be interpreted correctly.
The map was designed to retain these concepts, which include common descent, cladogenesis and anagenesis, continuity from ancestral to descendant species, and the passage of time.
Two important evolutionary concepts in particular are present in tree diagrams but can be challenging to interpret: the passage of time, and continuity from ancestral to descendant phyla.
Instead, studies of size in human evolution indicate that representatives of Homo can be grouped into a reasonable ancestor-to-descendant sequence showing increases in body size.
They reproduce by passing their genetic information to descendants that resemble them.
German law provides citizenship to descendants of families persecuted by the Nazis.
The photo had belonged to descendants of one of Billy the Kid's friends.
As with many trusts, the funds are given to descendants as the oldest generations die.
