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A lineal or direct descendant, in legal usage, is a blood relative in the direct line of descent – the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. of a person.In a legal procedure sense, lineal descent refers to the acquisition of estate by inheritance by parent from grandparent and by child from parent, whereas collateral descent refers to the acquisition of estate or real property ...
Descendant, a thriller film starring Katherine Heigl and Jeremy London; Descendants (2008 film), an animated short film, Winner Tokyo Anime Award 2009; Descendents, a Chilean experimental horror film
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 November 2024. Person from whom another person is descended For other uses, see Ancestor (disambiguation). "Ancestry", "Forefather", and "Ancestress" redirect here. For the genealogy company, see Ancestry.com. For the band, see Forefather (band). For the song, see Ancestress (song). This article needs ...
The green subgroup alone does not count as a clade; it is a paraphyletic group with respect to the blue group, because it excludes the blue branch which has descended from the same common ancestor. The green and blue subgroups together form a clade.
a fencing weapon descended from the duelling sword. In French, apart from fencing (the sport) the term is more generic: it means sword. escritoire a writing table. It is spelt écritoire in modern French. exposé a published exposure of a fraud or scandal (past participle of "to expose"); in French refers to a talk or a report on any kind of ...
Current taxonomy tends to treat F. silvestris, F. lybica, F. catus, [4] and F. bieti as different species. A 2007 study of feline mitochondrial DNA and microsatellites of approximately 1,000 cats from many different regions (including Africa, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and the Middle East) showed 5 genetic lineages of the wildcat population. [5]
In phylogenetics, a plesiomorphy ("near form") and symplesiomorphy are synonyms for an ancestral character shared by all members of a clade, which does not distinguish the clade from other clades. Plesiomorphy, symplesiomorphy, apomorphy, and synapomorphy, all mean a trait shared between species because they share an ancestral species. [a]
Black Paraguayans are descended from enslaved West Africans brought to Paraguay beginning in the 16th century. They became a significant presence in the country, and made up 11% of the population classified in 1785. Most Afro-Paraguayans established communities in towns such as Areguá, Emboscada, and Guarambaré. Many achieved their freedom ...