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Their possession of the bundles would have identified them as lineage heads, those most directly descended from the divine ancestors.
The seed from which the tree is grown consists of its rightmost left and leftmost right ancestors, initially the two pseudo-nodes.
Under protobiological conditions, peptides could have spontaneously formed and organized into simple, functional structures that were ancestors of modern protein channels and receptors.
What's more, this pressure would have been independent of our ancestors' cognitive abilities or social structures at the time.
Initiates pored over the book's photographs of famous ancestors, getting me to translate passages, which were then discussed and criticised.
The dual for downwards accumulations of the function subtrees is the function paths, which replaces each element of a tree with that element's ancestors.
We must belong to a particular reproductive community, sharing certain ancestors.
All this increases people's freedom to shape their identities in a way that their ancestors could not have possibly imagined.
A division of the world is also found in relation to lineages and ancestors associated with a par ticular place.
Feasts maintain relationships between the living and ancestors.
Eventually, soon after the beginning of the civil war, he judged the time ripe for reclaiming all the former power and wealth of his ancestors.
Both of these place names associate the caves with ancestors, and the latter specifically with divine ancestors.
They are unlikely to have formed a kin group with a commonly recognized set of ancestors.
Both must turn their backs on the inhuman voices which were those of their respective ancestors in order that authentic communication be possible.
Grant that our distant ancestors wanted to make tools when they knapped away.
Culture may be an ancestral characteristic of terrestrial cetacean ancestors; not derived via marine variability, modern cetacean mobility, or any living cetacean social structure.
First, culture may be an ancestral state predating the cetacean split from their terrestrial ancestors.
Their different rights, vis-'-vis 'nationals', simply meant that there was no immutable a link to the land of their ancestors.
Given that our ancestors were doing center-point foraging at that time, any food that was gathered had to be transported back to the home base.
Persistent reference to outdated ideals may also be considered as a spurious attempt to acquire legitimacy by speaking the language of revered ancestors.
Then the white people came and opened up the road for our ancestors.
The author offers interesting oral histories of the establishment of chiefdoms associated with three mythical ancestors, and ritual centres associated with those chiefdoms.
He believed that these conditions came from her age and her ancestors.
Transforming reality, as forging does, needs permission from the ancestors.
The blacksmith has to assure the consent of the ancestors and the presence of the spirits.
Consistent with the target article, they also underscore continuity between the behaviors of the earliest hominins and their apelike ancestors.
76 only direct ancestors but also other types of relative might provide important information on the line origin of alleles of the individual.
Simulation showed that the discrepancy between both approaches in terms of number of ancestors could be substantial.
The fossils described above are likely to derive from trimerophyte ancestors because of the probably paired terminal sporangia and general morphology typical of this group.
The ' owners ' were the unseen ancestors inhabiting the land.
The second number in parentheses is the number of sequences which are the ancestors of the samples from both populations.
There is also a philosophical and moral respect for our ancestors, which elevates the character and improves the heart.
Then each atom in each query in is either robust, or all its ancestors are in safe positions.
Information about the types and ancestors of nodes is the basis on which we make tabulated resolution.
Like baboons, our ancestors were aggressive and competitive, and social life was based on a dominance hierarchy.
The principal difference between ourselves and our ancestors is that they took society as they found it while we are self-conscious and perplexed.
The characteristics of a language that it could inherit from ancestors or trade with other languages are called (qualitative) characters.
If evolutionary psychologists really want to take a lesson from hunter-gatherers, we had better start talking to our ancestors.
The latter, however, has definitely lost the document-orientation of its ancestors, being considered a pure object-oriented middleware.
In some cases, it is necessary to inquire further if more distant ancestors are known to have been affected.
How many generations do we have to go back in order to find the ancestors that did not contribute to a particular individual's genetic make-up ?
If the climate began to change on our australopithecine ancestors, they were not the source of the change and could do nothing to prevent it.
Many of us do not share the language(s) of our ancestors.
The wealth of the regidores also re-ected these changes; apart from a handful of opulent aristocrats, the majority possessed more modest means than their ancestors.
Instead, they appreciate that the earlier time of their ancestors was one of destruction.
People were to respect tradition and the ways of the ancestors.
He shows the - unusual in the other sources - attention paid to female offices and to women ancestors in the given genealogical chains.
Each of the important ancestors of the musical is given its own section, and careful thought has gone into the preparation of this book.
The ancestors can be seen but not readily reached and thus their liminal quality is enhanced.
On this level, prescriptions function as conditional to the success of the forging because they are enforced by the ancestors.
He made a little hole in the ground in which he put some sugarcane wine for the ancestors.
The tombs of recent ancestors are naturally cleared, but in addition, tombs of more remote ancestors are also commonly swept.
The tablets which hold the names of temporally more distant ancestors become the focus of larger groups of agnates.
One of the main mechanisms for this maintenance is the worship of common ancestors.
In these corporately (by the lineage) owned, privately funded temple/ offices, shrines hold tablets on which are written the names of the relevant ancestors.
Nevertheless, we cannot exclude that in the following decades some, especially women, might have continued to dress in accordance with the customs of their ancestors.
He was deeply engaged in a transnational clan organisation and frequently came to his ancestral village to worship his lineage's ancestors.
People of the old times must do that, but now people don't pray to ancestors.
The interiors of structures above the plazas were the setting for private rituals where the ruler interacted with deities and ancestors, creating power through ritual.
They are means of communication with deities and with the ancestors.
The feast must be conducted in the presence of the ancestors and their descendants.
Quite probably, the serpent earspools por tray these witz mountains as places of och b'ih for conjuring revered ancestors into the sky.
Even one day of submergence would be too long for the ancestors of the bellbird, kiwi, southern beech and tuatara.
In the general situation, involving overlapping generations, identification of absorbed ancestors required the full analytical calculations presented above.
An oral informant asserted that his own ancestor's nominal conversion for political reasons was easily reversed when he retired to his own village.
The pangol are usually interpreted as representing both nature spirits, who inhabit the earth, and human ancestors.
The thought of even our recent ancestors can be quite alien to us.
The picketers argued that because their ancestors had taken elaborate precautions against disinterment, they would not have agreed to be autopsied.
Actually we know nothing about the frequency of nightmares experienced by our ancestors.
The open mouths and waving hands indicate that these deceased ancestors can still communicate with their living descendants.
Such covert influence of symmetry is also present in the entirely unrelated artefacts of our distant ancestors, in their depictions of animals.
Granted that our distant ancestors had some intentions when they engaged in knapping.
The commercial wheats have evolved through domestication from wild diploid and tetraploid ancestors (fig. 1).
Are they already sharing in the power of the ancestors?
To remember the ancestors, he said : to be remembered after one's death is a continuation of the respect one enjoyed during life.
They could be relics of either kin-group ancestors or comrades fallen in battle.
Extended genealogical knowledge of named ancestors provides credence for this conviction although the names themselves are closely guarded and taboo (mamunu).
One can agree with the author's conjecture that such dream contents mirror the threatening environment of our ancestors.
Likewise, in foreign landscapes the king would raise his own monuments right next to those of his ancestors.
Sheep are also suitable as sacrificial conduits for communications with the ancestors though only with those of the lineage.
Replicates of the ancestors produced an average of 40 colonies after 48 hours.
Our reptilian ancestors replaced their teeth continuously, as do lizards today.
Presumably its ancestors were not so different when they shared the marine habitat with the trilobites.
Man appears to be descended from patrilineal ancestors.
The main focus of their religious activity is the ancestors, with witchcraft and sorcery acting as subsidiary and opposed mystical forces representing disharmony and disorder.
They might, therefore, reasonably be expected to share characteristics that were also possessed by those common ancestors, even if they have unique characteristics as well.
In evolutionary terms, a century is of no significance - indeed we are genetically almost identical to our ancestors of 10 centuries ago.
The rural mortuary precincts exemplify this phenomenon given that the imitation of elite, imperial space served to memorialize decidedly local ancestors.
They were a focus of ritual activities, in which communication with the ancestors formed the central theme.
Since fairness most likely first arose in relatively small groups of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, the assumption of perfect monitoring is not far-fetched after all.
Membership was restricted to those able to demonstrate at least sixteen noble ancestors, in some places thirty-two.
Their advantage over paper ancestors is to build in as much technological value as possible, and constantly improve them.
First, it is certain that if dreaming has an adaptive function, it should have enhanced biological fitness in the environment of our ancestors.
As a result, contemporary earthworms live in worlds that have been partly niche-constructed by many generations of ancestors.
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