Sentences with word «endogamy»

Local populations became entrenched, eschewing intermarriage with other groups and adopting a cultural pattern of what researchers call endogamy, the practice of marrying only within an ethnic or social group.

Although a distinct community with near total endogamy, have not perserved Indian languages or customs.

Jews were supposed to practice endogamy — that is, marriage within the 12 tribes of Israel.

Marrying within the group remains important to many Jews because endogamy is...

Furthermore, assessing the pigmentation diversity patterns of a local region in India led us to examine how strict marriage practices and multi-layered endogamy contribute to the mosaic of skin tones.

That's because the Ashkenazi have what's called endogamy, which is the practice of marrying within the community.

Groups occupy seperate villages and maintain nearly total endogamy.

Kennedy had examined 9,044 marriages from several different years (1870, 1900, 1930, and 1940) to chart the decline of endogamy among people of the same nationality (Irish, Italian, Polish, etc.) and the rise of endogamy among the three religious groups.

There exist no simply biblical grounds, for as I have tried to show, in other respects many of us would clearly reject biblical attitudes and practices regarding nudity, intercourse during menstruation, prudery about speaking of the sexual organs and act, the «uncleanness» of semen and menstrual blood, endogamy, levirate marriage, and social regulations based on the assumption that women are sexual properties subject to men.

«There was a major demographic transformation in India from a region where mixture was pervasive to one in which it is very rare because of a shift to endogamy,» says lead author Priya Moorjani, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School.

Allele frequency differences between groups in India are larger than in Europe, reflecting strong founder effects whose signatures have been maintained for thousands of years owing to endogamy.

There is actually a term for this called «Endogamy» which Wikipedia defines as, «The custom of marrying only within the limits of a local community, clan, or tribe.»

Apparently they make an adjustment for the endogamy of people who have declared themselves Ashkenazi or I might have had 5 times that number.