line of descent
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They were generally non-elite because they could not trace their genealogy in a line of descent from Shirazi Muslims.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Over the course of the next few years, he’ll probably spend around $5,000 getting documentation together to prove the line of descent from his great-grandfather, who emigrated from Italy in 1906.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2022
A number of Capote’s reported works were methodologically in the line of descent from “Hiroshima,” culminating with “In Cold Blood,” which The New Yorker excerpted at great length in 1965.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
His letter is an interruption in this line of descent, a familial relation not premised on the paternal.
From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2017
It’s a common fallacy to envision these species as arranged in a straight line of descent, with Ergaster begetting Erectus, Erectus begetting the Neanderthals, and the Neanderthals evolving into us.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
