Grandparents: genetics/health.Ever wonder why humans form such strong attachments to relatives, when dogs, cats, and goldfish goldfish, freshwater fish, genus Carassius, of the family Cyprinidae, popular in aquariums and ponds. Native to China, it was first domesticated centuries ago from the wild form, an olive-colored carplike fish up to 16 in. (40 cm) long. often seem to care little about theirs? Biologists puzzle over Verb 1. puzzle over - try to solve cerebrate, cogitate, think - use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments; "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere" the same question, and now they suspect one answer might be found in ... grandma! In a study of families in India, University of Washington researchers found that having the support of a grandmother around the house increased a young woman's chances of fertility, or ability to become pregnant. In the same study, researchers found that the presence of a maternal MATERNAL. That which belongs to, or comes from the mother: as, maternal authority, maternal relation, maternal estate, maternal line. Vide Line. grandmother--your mother's mother--was a critical factor in the survival of grandchildren GRANDCHILDREN, domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim bequests given in a will to children, though in general they can make no such claim. 6 Co. 16. : 96 percent of children survived to age 6 if maternal grandmothers were alive, compared with 83 percent if the grandmother had died. |
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