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Three clones from each population were picked randomly from platings of these cultures and frozen separately; each experiment therefore compares 36 clones (12 populations × 3 clones) with the two ancestors (Ara -and Ara +).
The newly found private diary of Yoshihiro Tokugawa, a former grand chamberlain of the imperial court, records a conversation of 1968 in which the emperor said he had always ruled out the possibility of giving up the throne because he had considered it a "sacred duty to pass this nation, which I inherited from my ancestors, on to future generations."
In the words of Jose Angel Gutiérrez, as quoted by Arnoldo Vento, “La Raza is the affirmation of the most basic ingredient of our personality, the brownhood of our Indian ancestors wedded to all the other skin colors of mankind.
Those of our male ancestors who most doggedly climbed to the top of the local status hierarchy were often rewarded with sex partners--either multiple wives (the Dole approach) or multiple lovers (the Clinton approach).
Though most of its people claim descent from the ancient Egyptians, modern religious practices and social protocols are totally divorced from those of their ancestors.