Sentence examples for trace its ancestry from inspiring English sources

Yet personology can trace its ancestry to the ancient Greeks, who proposed a kind of biochemical theory of personality.

Every suburban galleria where you amble among a warren of upscale stores protected from the elements can trace its ancestry to the Paris arcades.

Related families formed a lineage, a kin group that could trace its ancestry directly to a known figure in the historical or legendary past.

They say the skeleton has features suggesting that it may be of Japanese or Polynesian origin, and that in any case no tribe or ethnic group in the world can trace its ancestry back 9,000 years.

Historians now trace its ancestry less to Rome than to Charlemagne and the "official" letter form developed for his decrees by an English monk, Alcuin, in the 9th century.

Though the class of intellectuals can trace its ancestry to the clerks and pedants of the medieval and Renaissance "schools," learning is no longer an earmark it is optional, and the lack of it avoids confusion with the horde of academics.

This molecule is often used as a 'mitochondrial marker' because it unambiguously traces its ancestry to α-proteobacteria and is localized not only in mitochondria but also in the hydrogenosome of Trichomonas and the mitosomes of Entamoeba and Giardia [11], [15], [54].

My father's family traces its ancestry there back 900 years.

Crossrail, a scheme designed to improve London's rail system, traces its ancestry to 1974.

Most of the coffee that grows in Latin America today traces its ancestry to a single coffee plant from Java that was taken to the Amsterdam Botanic Garden in 1706.

The DNA allowed them to draw up a family tree of the virus that traced its ancestry through time and space.