Sentences with phrase «known about its ancestry»

The Shar - Pei is a very old breed, and little is known about its ancestry.

It is a very old breed, and little is known about its ancestry.

The DNA Journey follows a diversified group of people who think they know about their ancestry, some of whom have very staunch opinions about nationalities.

follows a diversified group of people who think they know about their ancestry, some of whom have very staunch opinions about nationalities.

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For the Hispano Catholic people of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, Jewish ancestry was a will - o» - the - wisp of memory and culture, which many people had heard about without knowing if it was true.

Last fall I took tests from three major DNA ancestry companies to see if they could tell me anything about my identity that I didn't already know.

What is known about Denisovan ancestry comes from a single set of archaic human fossils found in the Altai mountains in Siberia.

The new data also put the nail in the coffin of another, highly controversial, hypothesis about Jewish ancestry: that the Ashkenazim actually descend from the Khazars, a Turkic people in Western Asia's Caucasus region whose rulers are known to have converted to Judaism in the 8th century C.E..

And when both happen, that often requires having to alter the story we tell ourselves about the ancestry, movement and timelines of the known human species.

Yoga was something I'd known about since young adulthood, both from family (as they acknowledged its roots in our ancestry), and friends (as they described the benefits of a lean and limber «yoga body»).

It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best - known work, The Call of the Wild, which is about a kidnapped, domesticated dog embracing his wild ancestry to survive and thrive in the wild.

In case you are interested in knowing more about your pet you can do a DNA test to find out about the dog's ancestry.

These devotees typically knew much more about their dogs» ancestry than about their own — they were often able to recite pedigrees back six or eight generations.

The Meantime: Before Digital, After Analogue No matter what its imagery has been about — autobiography, ancestry, race, all those things that comprise memory and its inexorable corollary, the passage of time — the art of Annette Lawrence has always been, in some respects, a practice, a concerted making of circles, squares, grids, and spirals.

And subsequently an organizing system, cladistics, developed that based its groupings not on superficial or structural similarities but on what was known about its evolutionary ancestry.