(n.) The custom, or tribal law, which prohibits marriage between members of the same tribe; marriage outside of the tribe; -- opposed to endogamy.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study of marriages shows that, in spite of its somewhat remote location, the valley cannot be considered an isolate, but that, on the contrary, exogamy is widely practised.
(2) These groups exhibit high mobility and exogamy rates and high fertility but relatively low mortality and variance in number of children per woman.
(3) Minimum genetic effect on the formation of diabetes mellitus concerns the group of reduced exogamy.
(4) Genealogies covering the three extant generations provided the data for a surname isonymy analysis to determine the amount of inbreeding prevalent, while the marital, birthplace and age at marriage data were used to ascertain the components of marital movement, i.e., marital distance, orientation of marital movement, spatial exogamy, and "diffusion".
(5) A study of the Kharkov population revealed the effect of parent exogamy for liability of the progeny to diabetes mellitus that was more pronounced in sons than in daughters.
(6) The degree of parents exogamy has no influence on daughters resistance to alcoholism and drug addiction.
(7) Exogamy tends to diminish with time among both types of union.
(8) The data obtained demonstrate a certain role of genetic factors in developmental acceleration displaying at a moderate degree of exogamy.
(9) A modification is suggested in the formula of Crow and Mange for the estimation of FIS to make it applicable to populations exhibiting clan exogamy.
(10) We report results of pedigree analyses; population and affected-family biochemical urine screening; estimation of inbreeding coefficient, of exogamy rate and of average marital distance and of calculation of the frequency of the AU allele, and of homozygotes and heterozygotes in this portion of the Trencín District.
(11) The reviewed traditional kindship system based on bilateral exogamy is an explanation.
(12) Within each cohort the overall exogamy rate was computed along with three estimates of gene flow based on marital migration: local migration (k), long-distance migration (m), and effective migration rate (me).
(13) Growth peculiarities were followed in children of pre-school and school age (Ukrainians from Dnepropetrovsk Region, Kumyks, and Avartses from Dagestan, Tadjiks, Usbeks and Kirghizes from Middle Asia) with a special reference to exogamy estimated both by the presence or absence of relationship between their parents and by the distance between their birthplaces denoted as 0, I and II degrees of exogamy (DE).
(14) 75% of gene flow via exogamy moved into the shahrestan from north-west and north-east and 12.4% from south-north provinces as a result of construction of roads and bridges.
(15) Demographically these groups are characterized by young age, high intertribal admixture, low non-Indian admixture, high exogamy but low marital distance and high inbreeding, high fertility but low variance in offspring number, and relatively low mortality.
(16) Data on exogamy and endogamy suggest that migration between the various populations has been at a level sufficient to prevent or correct any tendency to genetic diversification.
(17) Isonymy has been described in a North Indian Hindu Community, which shows surname exogamy.
(18) The genetic factors (consanguinity, exogamy) show more modest correlations than mesological factors.
(19) In type I diabetes mellitus, the maximum genetic effect concerns the group of moderate exogamy, in type II diabetes--the group of elevated exogamy.
Tribe
Definition:
(n.) A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob.
(n.) A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.
(n.) A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the Six Nations; the Seneca tribe.
(n.) A division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated; as, the city of Athens was divided into ten tribes.
(n.) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns.
(v. t.) To distribute into tribes or classes.
Example Sentences:
(1) His senior role in the Popalzai tribe and his chairmanship since 2005 of Kandahar provincial council bolstered his reputation as an Asian version of a mafia don.
(2) G6PD Tacoma-like may be common in some African tribes.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump signs order reviving controversial pipeline projects “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
(4) Before 1948, the Bedouin tribes lived and grazed their animals on much of the Negev, claiming ancestral rights to the land.
(5) Additional allotype information is presented for five previously reported South American tribes (Cayapo, Piaroa, Trio, Xavante and Yanomama).
(6) In aqueous solution, N-substituted isoxazolin-5-one derivatives, which occur in high amounts in seedlings of the tribe Vicieae, can be shown to undergo a proton exchange at C-4, indicative of their aromatic character.
(7) The cola accuminata is more popular in the Ibo and Igedde tribes of the Eastern and Middle Belt regions respectively in Nigeria, while cola nitida is preferred by the Hausa-Fulani tribes of the Northern part of Nigeria.
(8) No outstandingly high value for gametic association between the alleles of the 2 HL-A series was observed, but haplotypes formed by antigens with dissimilar frequencies in Caucasoids, Negroids and American Indian tribes have shown statistically significant D values.
(9) More than twice as large as Europe, Brazil has a population of 199 million, made up of descendants of colonial settlers, their slaves, survivors of the indigenous tribes they decimated and 20th-century waves of migration from Japan, Lebanon, Europe and elsewhere.
(10) The confederation is grouped around 10 tribes across the north.
(11) The Tribe triumphed in Critics' Week, while Love at First Fight won the top gong at the Directors' Fortnight.
(12) The zoologist Rob Wiliams, who is one of the few people to have seen members of the uncontacted tribes, says franker discussions with and about indigenous people forced into transition are vital because once tribes have access to roads, guns and healthcare, their numbers grow rapidly and so does their impact on other species.
(13) Gangs of armed men ransacked and burned homes of government supporters and residents from tribes sympathetic to the government.
(14) Data are presented on electrophoretic variants of 25 polypeptides found in the blood serum and erythrocytes, in 812 individuals from three Amerindian tribes, the Pano, the Baniwa, and the Kanamari.
(15) I also can't tell you that my tribe will accept you.
(16) The Benin-type chromosome was also found among Algerian and Sicilian sickle-cell patients, whereas the Indian-type chromosome was observed in two geographically distant tribes, illustrating the spread of these sickle-cell genes.
(17) A settlement of Temiars, an aboriginal tribe residing in the north-eastern jungles of the Malay Peninsula, was selected for a study of their cardiorespiratory fitness.
(18) In chronic traumatic inflammations of bones with active stomias where the inflammatory process lasted many weeks, and from the purulent matter two or more tribes with various sensitiveness to antibiotics, associated treatment was also used with application of large doses cephalosporin antibiotics of Glaxo-Zinacef of Fortum firms.
(19) Dallas Goldtooth, an organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network and member of the Mdewakanton Dakota and Dine tribes, said he had expected Trump to support the pipeline, but did not imagine it would happen within days of the administration.
(20) Libyans have a saying: "Within Libya it is region against region, within regions, tribe against tribe, within tribes, family against family."