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US
/ˌdʒiniˈɑɫədʒi/
]
[ UK /dʒˌiːnɪˈælədʒi/ ]
[ UK /dʒˌiːnɪˈælədʒi/ ]
NOUN
- the study or investigation of ancestry and family history
- successive generations of kin
How To Use genealogy In A Sentence
- Most importantly, if mutations have no effect on organismal fitness, the genealogy of a sample can be separated entirely from the mutational process.
- All these methods assume that there is no recombination, and they rely on the existence of a single simple coalescent history or genealogy for all sites in the locus.
- The quest for humanity's genetic genealogy began in the early 1980s, when researchers were just starting to decipher the genetic code.
- In January 1998, I started to get interested in genealogy and family history.
- Members of the caste keep family records and can trace a genealogy to a clan's mythical ancestors.
- We should therefore feel compelled to grant Joyce's premise that there is such a complete non-moral genealogy only if we have already given up on the idea of knowable moral truths. Morality and Evolutionary Biology
- The immediate genealogy of New Historicism was not German historicism but the Marxism of the mid-20th Century.
- The fact that the genealogy of such claims is so distinctively national does not in itself disqualify them: any general truth will have a local point of origin.
- Last year, Susan conducted a three week lecture tour in America to tell the story of Irish heraldry and genealogy and spoke in Boston, New York, Minneapolis and Chicago.
- And there's a suggestion that there are some aspects of the genealogy of life on earth that might be explained by this.