But combined with other data and lines of inquiry, the database can be used to trace deeper ecological and climatic trends, as well as to study the effect of transport, trade routes, and shifting political boundaries on urban growth.
The Odyssey traces deep male fears about female power, and it shows the terrible damage done to women, and perhaps also to men, by the androcentric social structures that keep us silent and constrained.
Multigene analyses are currently thought to give more reliable results for tracing deep branching events in Metazoa but 18S still is extensively used in phylogenetic analyses.
Within the Mollusca, where the sequence composition is highly variable between clades, both alignment methods and models of evolution used in phylogenetic analyses at date still remain the main bottlenecks in tracing deep phylogeny.
Mr. Keegan traces deep-seated historical antagonism between Shiite and Sunni Muslim contingents in the region.
If we want to see how Obama will change the world - for good or bad - we need to trace the deep structural factors that underlie US foreign policy, and tease out what he will do about them.
Only the invention of a slow-evolving autobranch bivalve mtDNA (if it exists) would help to trace Bivalvia deep phylogenetic relationships based on mtDNA gene arrangements.
Mr. Karpen traced the deep furrows and the interesting shapes of the chunky bark.
Mr. Rose was born in New Rochelle and grew up in Scarsdale, near Butler Woods, a land preserve to which he traces his deep love of the environment and of nature.
Accompanied by my oldest friend, Chris, I'd embarked on a road trip centered on bourbon and bluegrass, exploring the back roads of the state where those two American mainstays trace their deepest roots.
