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  • A man who had kin in a village in which there was a specialty would profit by such ties in trading.
  • Distant kin in 1997, dna was successfully sequenced - to everyone's surprise - from the original neanderthal specimen.
  • Kin ties of men through men form the core of the lineage groups.
  • However, this wasn't merely some gunsmoke rip-off, anymore than man from uncle was close kin to dragnet.
  • Are ye shair ah'm the neist o kin?
  • Kin ' o ' mak ma presence known.
  • The lands were then granted to one of the legitimate heirs who had been brought up by his mother's kin, the frasers.
  • The students spent a full twelve hours in the fields, working in turn on the plots of several families of close king in turn on the plots of several families of close kin.
  • Kin selection means.
  • Are ye shair ah'm the neist o kin?
  • Beyond prohibitions pertaining to near kin, the choice of marriage partners was open to kin and non-kin alike.
  • Kin relations are relegated to second place - at least in a professional context.
  • The scent of family; his blood kin, literally.
  • In some villages women were raped by gangs of youths and a growing number were murdered, often by their own kin.
  • Kin selection theory to explain altruism or self-sacrifice.
  • The best thing ye kin do is to go back, and when ye git into town ask a policeman.
  • If other kin live nearby they also will be visited.
  • Kin relationships between them.
  • Talk ' bout yer brimstone, ah kin smell it from here!
  • Kin networks: the noun phrase.

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