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Apical ancestor - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography In kinship and descent, an apical ancestor is a common ancestor from whom a lineage or clan may trace its descent. The word apical is used because this ancestor is at the apex of the genealogy. This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Apical ancestor contains research on www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Apical_ancestor   (112 words)

Ancestor_worship_.htm While 7 far from universal, ancestor 9 worship is a common 4 theme in various distinct 2 cultures at every 4 level of cultural development, 2 and it remains 8 an important component of 5 various religious practices 9 in modern times. Ancestor worship in 4 some cultures (such as 4 Chinese) seeks only to 2 honor the deeds, 0 memories, and sacrifice of 0 the deceased. Rather, ancestor 7 worship involves the 1 same sort of 4 religious practices one would 4 expect to see 9 when people appease 1 or supplicate other entities 1 with supernatural powers, such 2 as gods, angels, saints, 8 or demons. prience.com /Ancestor_worship_.htm   (261 words)

Search Encyclopedia.com Ancestor worship is based on the belief that the spirits of the dead continue to dwell in the natural world and have the power to influence the fortune and fate of the living. ancestor worship ancestor worship, ritualized propitiation and invocation of dead kin. Apical meristems found at the tips of stems and roots increase the length of these sections. www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Apical+ancestor   (481 words)

Clan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Still other clans are bilateral, consisting of all the descendants of the apical ancestor through both the male and female lines; the clans of Scotland are one example. Even if actual lineage patterns are unknown, clan members nonetheless recognize a founding member or apical ancestor. When this ancestor is not human, this is referred to as animallian totem. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clan   (438 words)

Ancestor_.htm An ancestor is a parent or (recursively) 0 the parent of 8 an ancestor. Some societies have 7 had a form 5 of ancestor worship; most modern societies 5 seem to have focused 1 this into geneology. Two individuals have a 4 genetic relationship if one 9 is the ancestor of 8 the other or 0 if they share a 7 common ancestor. prience.com /Ancestor_.htm   (83 words)

Genealogist apical ancestor, in anthropological terminology, is the "ancestor at the apex," i.e., the founding ancestor of a lineage. The "apical ancestor," or the founding ancestor, of each family was called the viji purusha, or "seed man" of the lineage. Every major patrilineage, called mul by Maithil Brahmans, was founded by an "apical ancestor," the viji purusha, in the thirteenth century. www.csuchico.edu /anth/mithila/seedman.htm   (699 words)

ArchaeologyInfo.com Glossary apical ancestor (ancestress): The ancestor or ancestress from which descent is traced (the "apex" of the triangle of descendants). www.archaeologyinfo.com /glossarya.htm   (2266 words)

Kinship and descent A clan is a descent group that claims common descent from an apical ancestor but cannot demonstrate it (stipulated descent). A lineage is a descent group who can demonstrate their common descent from an apical ancestor. If a clan's apical ancestor is nonhuman, it is called a totem. www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/kinship_and_descent_1   (545 words)

Apical Apical, from the Latin APEX (plural '\'apices''), meaning to be at the apex or tip, has a number of meanings. In dentistry, apical refers to an anatomic direction, meaning closer to the root of a tooth. In phonetics, An apical consonant is one produced with the tip of the tongue. www.kiwipedia.com /en/apical.html   (89 words)

Ancestor -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article An ancestor is a (A father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian) parent or ((additional info and facts about recursively) recursively) the parent of an ancestor. Some societies have had a form of (Worship of ancestors) ancestor worship; most modern societies seem to have focused this into (Successive generations of kin) genealogy. (additional info and facts about Most recent common ancestor) Most recent common ancestor www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/ancestor.htm   (107 words)

Glossary Apical Ancestor: The individual at the top of a descent group to which all individuals within the descent group trace their descent. Clan: A descent group for which the apical ancestor is unknown. Paleoanthropology: The study of the fossilized remains of human ancestors. core.ecu.edu /anth/leibowitzj/Glossary.html   (2152 words)

Totem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In kinship and descent, if the apical ancestor of a clan is nonhuman, it is called a totem. For some tribes, totems can represent larger groups than the individual person, and clans and tribes can have a totem. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Totemism   (854 words)

Worth DNA Project As can be seen, only one male great-grandson of the apical male ancestor carries the Y chromosome from that ancestor (the red patrilineage). This male ancestor is called the Most Common Recent Ancestor, or MCRA. Since the mutation rate in each individual marker is very small, geneticists generally use a series of 12 or 25 standard markers to determine an individual's "haplotype" in order to compare with other males and determine whether they descend from a single individual male at some point in the past. worthdna.home.comcast.net   (2094 words)

Transformations in Andean Society She claims that ancestor deities were often classified as male or female. Manipulating local origin myths, the Incas claimed that their ancestors deities, the Sun and the Moon, were the earliest creations of Viracocha. The Inca and his queen, the Coya, were considered to be "children," or direct descendants, of the Sun and Moon, and thus were symbolically equivalent to the Venus-Morning and Venus-Evening stars respectively. www.uvm.edu /%7Edblom/kolatfin.html   (6552 words)

Rehfisch Thesis CHAPTER 3 NON-UNILINEAL DESCENT GROUPS It is therefore possible that a married woman might be descended from the apical ancestor of the Man, not the one to which her husband belongs, in her husband's hamlet. Secondly, new settlers in a hamlet who are able to trace descent and/or are ascribed descent from the apical ancestor are said to be members. This ancestor is one or two generations removed from the present day senior male member. lucy.ukc.ac.uk /Fdtl/Rehf/Publications/rehf_3.html   (10438 words)

BioMed Central Full text The viral transmembrane superfamily: possible divergence of Arenavirus and Filovirus glycoproteins from a common RNA virus ancestor The apical sequence, particularly the peptide KFWYL in LCMV or KYWYL in Lassa, defines a broadly-cross reactive antibody epitope shared by these viruses [18] that is in precisely the same topographical location as the broadly-reactive apical epitope (positions 598-609, LGIWGCSGKLIC) that has been finely mapped in HIV-1 [19]. The apical domain is the only region to be glycosylated, also in line with a number of TM proteins including that of HIV-1 and other Retroviruses. The most likely explanation for such high levels of similarity among Arenaviruses and Filoviruses would be divergence of both of these agents from a common viral ancestor. www.biomedcentral.com /fulltext/pubmed/11208257   (2706 words)

Pastoralism in the new millennium The basis of pastoral organization almost everywhere in the world is the clan, a set of patrilineally related households traced (in theory) to an apical ancestor. Such groupings can be very small, and the ancestry stretch back for only a short time span, or so great that the ancestral figure is semi-mythical, in which case the working kin group is a lineage. The usual indicator of tenure in the ranching areas is the fence, a high-investment strategy that is only effective in countries where specific legal frameworks are in place. www.fao.org /DOCREP/005/Y2647E/y2647e08.htm   (1288 words)

Find Your Ancestor Free See also:, an apical ancestor is a common ancestor from whom a clan share an apical ancestor three or more generations back All the best information about ancestor where to find out about free genealogy software and also more resources on reverse telephone directory. Ancestor Search - Global genealogy surname search engines. www.education-411.com /find/find-your-ancestor-free.html   (464 words)

History of popular Islam in northwestern Tunisia 1800-1970 Therefore, persons who had been living in one another‘s proximity for some decades, would be affiliated to the same mythical ancestor (apical ancestor of a clan named after him) irrespective of objective, historical, genealogical links. Around 1800 a group of immigrants, and offshoot of a clan called cArfawiya after their apical ancestor cArfa, had arrived in this area and had since grown into a local numerical majority in two adjoining valleys. On the other hand persons who shared, historically, the same matrilineal ancestors would cease to be considered close agnates and would even no longer be reckoned to the same clan, if because of migration following the fission of homesteads they had not been living in one another‘s proximity for several decades. www.shikanda.net /african_religion/popul.htm   (8015 words)

Maternal Lines Today many clans are bilateral, consisting of all the descendents of the apical ancestor through both the male and female lines. Members of a clan share an apical ancestor several generations back. Each of these groups, by an astounding yet inescapable logic, traced back to just one woman, the common maternal ancestor of everyone in her group, or clan. www.genforum.familytreemaker.com /rutherford/messages/5889.html   (799 words)

Special Feature: Inversion of the chordate body axis: Are there alternatives? -- Gerhart 97 (9): 4445 -- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Critics of inversion have usually favored a less complex common ancestor and a different path of chordate evolution. The hypothetical ancestor (Left, cross section) has little dorsoventral differentiation except for the mouth on the ventral side. involving an ancestor such as a bilaterogastrea (4) or a larva-like www.pnas.org /cgi/content/full/97/9/4445   (2537 words)

Bryopsida This ancestor diversified over time into several descendent subgroups, which are represented as internal nodes and terminal taxa to the right. The basal branching point in the tree represents the ancestor of the other groups in the tree. Leaf cells are variously differentiated forming specialized groups at allar, basal, medial, upper and apical leaf zones. tolweb.org /tree/tree?group=Bryopsida   (1625 words)

Families Patrilineal with the lineage head descendant from the oldest son of the lineage ancestor New lineages can be formed after 5 generations from the oldest son of the 2nd wife of the lineage ancestor large lineages may be divided into sublineages who trace their ancestry to a son of the lineage ancestor www.clas.ufl.edu /users/bkimura/descentkinship.htm   (430 words)

Glossary Basis of the lineage; descent-group members cite the names of their forebears in each generation from the apical ancestor through the present. Zoological ape family living in Europe during the middle and late Miocene; probably includes the common ancestor of the lesser apes (gibbons and siamangs) and the great apes. The study of the human species and its immediate ancestors. highered.mcgraw-hill.com /sites/0072832258/student_view0/glossary.html   (4652 words)

ancestor antique chinese painting - Cape Cod Attic capecodattic.com One-Person Ancestor Painting Ancestor paintings are a genre of Chinese folk art. Ancestor Paintings 1 <<< 1 2 3 Size: Width*Height in cm (1inch=2.54cm... Ancestor Paintings 2 <<< 1 2 3 Size: Width*Height in cm (1inch=2.54cm... www.capecodattic.com /ancestor-antique-chinese-painting   (301 words)

Interactive Education: Transitioning CD-ROMs to the Web (ResearchIndex) Abstract: rmly believe that Visual Anthropology is an apical ancestor of multimedia scholarship. Anthropologists have conventionally recorded the diverse cultural heritage of humankind by means of varied media: written text, graphics, film, sound and still images, as well as three dimensional objects and even performance skills. citeseer.ist.psu.edu /64411.html   (318 words)

Chinese clan - tScholars.com A Chinese clan(会馆, pinyin: Huìgǔan) is a patrilineal and patrilocal group of related Chinese people with a common surname and sharing a common ancestor and, in many cases, an ancestral village (see clan). Clan loyalties tend to be very strong in the south of China, and to a large extent are reinforced by ties to the ancestral village, common property, and often a common spoken Chinese dialect which can be unintelligible to people outside the village. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Chinese_clan   (334 words)

Afghanistan - Background Their ethnohistory stipulates that their apical ancestor, Qays, was converted by the Prophet Muhammad. To one degree or another every mujahid has a grudge; loss of kin, loss of property, personal injury, eviction from the land of the lineage and its ancestors, torture, and related grievances not only justify acts of revenge but also make them a matter of family and personal honor. In a society in which tribal, ethnic, linguistic, and class cleavages determine most social relations, Islam and the sense of belonging to and participating in the Islamic community (umma) continued in the mid 1984s to provide the overriding cohesive force for the freedom fighters. www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/afghanistan/cs-introduction.htm   (2596 words)

Chinese clan - Chinese Culture - Chinese Culture A Chinese clan is a group of related Chinese people with a common Chinese surnamesurname and sharing a apical ancestorcommon ancestor and ancestral village (see clan). Clan loyalties tend to be very strong, and to a large extent are reinforced by ties to the ancestral village and often a common spoken Chinese dialect which can be unintelligible to people outside the village. www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Chinese_clan   (200 words)

Culture.7825 They are only landholding units whose members are the descendants of an apical ancestor and have a potential right to the land he owned. It is only in watching over and allocating the land that the group acts. lucy.ukc.ac.uk /EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7825   (1350 words)

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