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Is the Central Valley of Costa Rica a genetic isolate?
Revista de Biología Tropical, 2004 In the last decade, the Costa Rican Central Valley population (CRCV), has received considerable scientific attention, attributed in part to a particularly interesting population structure. Two different and contradictory explanations have emerged: (1) An
Bernal Morera, Ramiro Barrantes
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Structural endogamy and the network [PDF]
Mathématiques et sciences humaines, 1997 This article, one of a series, approaches the topics of marriage and kinship through a revitalized kinetic structural approach that shifts the primary focus from abstract models of rules, terminologies, attitudes and norms to exploration of concrete relations in a population, analyzed graph-theoretically in their full complexity as networks.
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Actually existing Chinese matriarchy [PDF]
, 2008 The essays in this volume present contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, its historical complexity and its modern metamorphoses. The collection draws particular attention to the reverberations of larger socio-cultural and politico ...
Stafford, Charles
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Earliest Evidence for Social Endogamy in the 9,000-Year-Old-Population of Basta, Jordan
PLoS ONE, 2013 The transition from mobile to sedentary life was one of the greatest social challenges of the human past. Yet little is known about the impact of this fundamental change on social interactions amongst early Neolithic communities, which are best recorded ...
K. Alt +9 more
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Clinical Genetics, Volume 109, Issue 2, Page 266-276, February 2026.In 325 exomes of South Brazilian Mennonites, we identified 23 pathogenic variants (P) and 27 likely P, with founder effects identified for 96% of P, whose frequencies differed from non‐Finnish Europeans, Amish, and Brazilian populations. ABSTRACT The Mennonite population has a unique history of 500 years of genetic isolation shaped by at least three ...
Luiza Beatriz Mayer de Lima +8 more
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Families and states: citizenship and demography in the Greco-Roman world [PDF]
This paper investigates the interrelationship between states and families. At different levels of organization, both play a large role in shaping the context in which individuals live their lives. Yet when it comes to understanding key demographic events
Saskia C. Hin
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, 2017 Review of A. Maria A. Kastrinou, Power, Sect and State in Syria: The Politics of Marriage and Identity amongst the Druze. London and New York: I.B.
Schäfers, Marlene
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The Fettered and the Flea: A New Poem by Edmund Waller☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 41-54, February 2026.Abstract This contribution explores for the first time a 22‐line poem in a British Library manuscript, ‘To a young lady that kept a flea chay’nd in a box’, which can be convincingly ascribed to Edmund Waller. Its most famous relative is Donne’s ‘The Flea’, but its ancestry differs.
Stuart Gillespie
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Inbreeding in sugarcane varieties Autofecundação em variedades de cana-de-açúcar
Ciência Rural, 2011 Sugarcane species are allogamous, i.e. selfing is expected to reduce plant vigor. This study was undertaken to obtain and evaluate first-generation inbred lines that may be used for further crosses and determine the extent of inbreeding depression in ...
Marcelo de Almeida Silva +1 more
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Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2018 The reproductive system of flowering plants can be highly variable, affecting their biology, gene flow and genetic variability among populations. Petunia secreta is a rare annual endemic species of Pedra do Segredo, located in the municipality of ...
Daniele M. Rodrigues +3 more
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