lineally

lineage | American Dictionary

lineage
noun[ U ]
us/ˈlɪn·i·ɪdʒ/
biology
all the living things that are related directly to the same living thing that existed long ago

Examples of lineage

lineage
By providing a historical, intellectual and cultural lineage, she is able to clarify contemporary debates about regulation and cultural authority.
Despite her generous marking out of a lineage of critics who have inspired her, however, this book is very much her own.
In order to further understand relationships among various lineages, additional genes need to be sequenced, including some nuclear loci.
The lineage as a genealogical map appears to be too rigid and static-based on blood and marriage.
Such arrangements, enacted without the customary familial negotiations, usurped the privileges of parents and their ability to protect their family lineage, stability, and honour.
The reason for the apparent success of this clonal lineage and its spreading mechanisms are not clear.
Segmentary lineage systems arose as groups increased in size and then divided.
I think we as theatre artists have been orphaned from our spiritual lineage.
A co-evolutionary component is also involved in lineage persistence.
In double transgenic mice, reporter expression was detected in oligodendrocyte lineage cells as expected.
Segmentation in the lineage was not clearly expressed in terms of the distribution of houses in residential space.
And so, against her wishes, she agrees to name a male heir to her husband's estate that his lineage forces on her.
If not, then the lineage would become extinct while waiting for a second or third variant to occur.
His sample spanned ten customary sections occupied by seventeen lineages and four mixed groups.
That coding, along with coding for all responses in the lineage that have been reinforced, is conserved materially and remains available for replication.
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Collocations withlineage

lineage

These are words often used in combination with lineage.

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ancient lineage
If cerebral asymmetries for human vocalisation truly have the ancientlineage argued here, why should any modern humans be right-brained or left-handed?
distinct lineage
Based on the results thus far obtained, it is likely that further sampling will reveal several genetically distinct lineages.
evolutionary lineage
The key question is the extent of mutation rate heterogeneity among sites in the evolutionary lineage of humans.
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