descendants

• “But to imagine that such a thing enters the heads of a great and growing majority of immigrants and their descendants is a ludicrous misconception, and a dangerous one to boot.”

  Could Someone Please Explain This To Me ?

• “One of the descendants is an investment counselor and another a Ph.D. Mrs. [Megan] Smolenyak Smolenyak described them as “poster children” for immigrant America, with Irish, Jewish, Italian and Scandinavian surnames.”

  Start Spreading the News

• “Even so, I choose to spend my food money so that my long-term health, and that of my descendants, is not compromised.”

  Making Links

• “A characteristic that occurs only in later descendants is called an apomorphy (meaning "separate form" or "far from form," as in far from the root ancestor; also called a "derived" state) for that group.”

  A Disclaimer for Behe?

• “Darwin descendants are still there (through the Keynes), and the institute still supports the notorious Pioneer Fund directly.”

  A Review of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

• “Linguistic evidence that these diverse communities intermingled to some extent with these PNECB descendants is found in their modern language descendants 'lexis. 10”

  Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE

• “What we can do for our descendants is promote, or at least avoid retarding, economic growth.”

  Natural Disasters

• “At least the phony, bait & switch concern for starving artists and their descendants is well grounded in history.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Jukeboxes are Killing The Recording Industry

• “The first white man to see Lake Victoria, John Hanning Speke, claimed the two tribes in the Rwanda region were direct descendants from the Bible.”

  Archive 2006-11-01

• “As reported in a variety of rambling articles in what some refer to as "London tube rags," Curry believes that the near-term descendants of the genetic upper class will be tall, slim, healthy, attractive, intelligent and creative.”

  The Speculist: October 2006 Archives

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