Thus far, the origins of the word remain inconclusive, as the term is not used outside Mexican-American communities, further indicating that the term is primarily self-identifying.

Thus the practice may have origins in the ascetical practices of the biblical prophets.

Thus, these origins for lycanthropy mingle a belief in reincarnation, a belief in the sharing of souls between living humans and beasts and a belief in human ghosts appearing as non-human animals after death.

Thus these marine worms, described to be the sister group of such animals as sea urchins, are of great importance to the scientific community interested in knowing the origins of chordate development.

Thus the FitzGeralds also claim an association with Áine ; despite the French-Norman origins of the clan, the FitzGeralds would become known for being " More Irish than the Irish themselves.

Thus, the two same-named communities shared somewhat similar origins.

Thus, it is difficult to establish the regional / cultural origins of many practices.

Thus, there was a considerable gap in the ages of Abdullah and Ismail on the one hand, and Musa al-Kazim, Ishaq and Muhammad, Imam Sadiq ’ s three other sons from Hamida of Sudanese origins, on the other.

Thus, New Age conspiracy theorists, such as the makers of documentary films like Esoteric Agenda, claim that globalists who plot on behalf of the New World Order are simply misusing occultism for Machiavellian ends, such as adopting 21 December 2012 as the exact date for the establishment of the New World Order in order to take advantage of the growing 2012 phenomenon, which has its origins in the fringe Mayanist theories of New Age writers José Argüelles, Terence McKenna, and Daniel Pinchbeck.

Thus a satisfactory conclusion about the epic ’ s origins cannot be drawn based on the lifespans of historical heroic figures .... Jiangbian pointed out that the foundation for the origin of epic is ethnic folk culture.

Thus the name Pennocrucium attests the origins of the name Penkridge, but is not its direct origin.

Thus we see Ercilla appealing to the concept of the " noble savage ," which has its origins in classical authors and took on a new lease of life in the renaissance-c. f.

Thus, the origins of this text should probably be dated to around the mid-seventeenth century BCE.

Thus, unlike ENSO, the PDO is not a single physical mode of ocean variability, but rather the sum of several processes with different dynamical origins.

Thus, the adivasi origins of Valmiki, who composed the Ramayana, were acknowledged, as were the origins of adivasi tribes such as the Grasia and Bhilala, which descended from mixed Rajput and Bhil marriages.

Thus, while a roundel may be blazoned by its tincture, e. g., a roundel vert ( literally " a roundel green "), it is more often described by a single word, in this case pomme ( literally " apple ", from the French ) or, from the same origins, pomeis — as in " Vert ; on a cross Or five pomeis " ( Scottish Public Register vol.

Thus he was an anti-Normanist who stressed the Slavic origins of Rus ', put the emphasis upon internal discord as the primary reason for the fall of Kievan Rus ', and emphasized the native Ukrainian ethnic makeup and origins of the Ukrainian Cossacks.

Thus, the Service's origins — in part — predate the Declaration of Independence, and therefore the United States itself.

Thus civil law, mostly of French origins, now prevails throughout the Middle East, and the occasional remnants of common law are likely not to survive.

The origins of this trio are less well known and it is unclear whether they were added after the original three or whether the list of six originated at the same time. Thus New year began.

Thus, from an evolutionary perspective men may have had more to gain from a large increase in resources than women have had, which may be one explanation for why men, and especially poor men, tend to gamble more than women.

Thus, species that are naturally evolving and contain reduced sizes of genes can be accounted for an increased number of noticeable differences between them, thereby leading to changes in their evolutionary rates.

Thus, for the scientist, reality is explored as an evolutionary system of diverse entities, the order of which is determined by the principle of causality.

Thus the diagram below does not represent an evolutionary tree.

Thus it no longer produces its energy through nuclear fusion and, in evolutionary terms, it is now becoming a compact white dwarf star.

Thus there is an obvious evolutionary drive to hatch at night, when survival rates on the beach are much higher.

Thus determining the phylogenetic history of a species can not be done conclusively by determining evolutionary trees for single genes ".

Thus determining the phylogenetic history of a species can not be done conclusively by determining evolutionary trees for single genes.

Thus, non-proteinogenic amino acids would have been excluded by the contingent evolutionary success of nucleotide-based life forms.

Thus, the data in eHRAF Archaeology can allow researchers to determine whether evolutionary patterns in one region are repeated in others, and to determine whether the presumed causal factors in one region are important, and antecedent, in other world regions too.

Thus we accumulate damages to our body as we age and harbor late-onset diseases such as Huntington's disease which have minimum impact on the evolutionary success of our gene overlords.

" Thus, penis-to-penis rubbing between males is thought, according to varying evolutionary theorists, to have existed before the development of hominids into humans and bonobos, and may or may not have occurred in the homosexual activity of both of these genetically related species.

Thus the PAX6 gene is highly conserved across evolutionary lineages.

Thus, an important part of his work concerned the evolutionary organization of the nervous system for which he proposed three levels: a lower, a middle, and a higher.

Thus, some characters might be seen as more likely to reflect the true evolutionary relationships among taxa, and thus they might be weighted at a value 2 or more ; changes in these characters would then count as two evolutionary " steps " rather than one when calculating tree scores ( see below ).

Thus, CST is helpful in unravelling an array of human evolutionary puzzles because it can explain wasteful and altruistic behavior.

Thus, each of them accepts an evolutionary paradigm, while rejecting some aspects of Darwinism.

We can design our life any way we want, but whether we will thrive depends on how well the life fits human predispositions " Thus, the goals of evolutionary psychology overlap with the science of morality.

Thus, from an evolutionary psychological point of view, lesbian couples are expected to seek sex less frequently than heterosexual or gay male couples.

Thus, knowing the students ' level on a developmental sequence provides information on the kind and level of knowledge they can assimilate, which, in turn, can be used as a frame for organizing the subject matter to be taught at different school grades.

Thus, there was a global rise of religious nationalism in the wake of the end of the cold war, but also as postcolonial politics ( facing considerable developmental challenges, but also dealing with the reality of colonially-defined – and therefore somewhat artificial borders ) become challenged.

Thus, every child newly diagnosed with CHARGE syndrome should have a complete evaluation by an ENT specialist, audiologist ( to check for hearing, unless this is also checked by the ENT specialist ), ophthalmologist, pediatric cardiologist, developmental therapist, and pediatric urologist.