Examples of descent in the following topics:
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- Descent, like family systems, is one of the major concepts of anthropology.
- A descent group is a social group whose members have common ancestry.
- An unilineal society is one in which the descent of an individual is reckoned either from the mother's or the father's line of descent.
- With matrilineal descent, individuals belong to their mother's descent group.
- With patrilineal descent, individuals belong to their father's descent group.
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- Devah Pager and Lincoln Quillian compared employers' responses on questions involving race-related hiring practices to their actual hiring practices by sending matched pairs of young men to apply for jobs, either both of European descent or both of African descent, but one of the men had a criminal record.
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- In the Molecular era of classification, Carl Woese, who is regarded as the forerunner of the molecular phylogeny revolution, argued that the bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes represent separate lines of descent that diverged early on from an ancestral colony of organisms.
- Thus, though Woese identified three primary lines of descent the Archaebacteria, the Eubacteria and the Urkaryotes, the latter now represented by the nucleocytoplasmic component of the Eukaryotes. these lineages were formalised into the rank Domain (regio in Latin) which divided Life into 3 domains: the Eukaryota, the Archaea and the Bacteria.
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- Van der Weyden's most well-known painting is The Descent From the Cross, circa 1435.
- Van der Weyden's most well-known painting is The Descent From the Cross, circa 1435.
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- While indigeneity is associated with Native American biological descent, it is defined culturally rather than genetically.
- Indigenous groups are formally defined in Mexico as groups that speak one of sixty-two officially recognized indigenous languages; while indigeneity is associated with Native American biological descent, it is defined culturally rather than genetically.
- Mexicans of European descent, often called "blancos" ("whites") or "güeros" in Mexican Spanish, have light skin and predominantly European features.
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- "Latino" is a term used primarily in the United States to designate people of Latin American heritage or descent.
- Latino is generally used more broadly to include non-Spanish speaking persons of Latin American descent, such as Brazilians.
- Prior to 1965 the majority of immigrants in the U.S. were of European descent, but in the subsequent decades Latinos came to make up a majority of new immigrants .
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- Census Bureau estimated that about 0.8% of the U.S. population was of American Indian or Alaska Native descent.
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- This is not surprising since those of African descent formed the largest population segment in the South for 200 or 300 years.
- The prevalence of the disease in the United States is approximately 1 in 5,000, mostly affecting Americans of Sub-Saharan African descent, according to the National Institutes of Health.
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- One can, however, refer to partial homology where a fraction of the sequences compared (are presumed to) share descent, while the rest does not.
- Orthologs, or orthologous genes, are genes in different species that originated by vertical descent from a single gene of the last common ancestor.
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- It may be used in a maneuver to change a transfer orbit or an ascent orbit into a stable one, but also to change a stable orbit into a descent (i.e., descent orbit insertion).