paternity
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Using this extensive dataset, scientists investigated how the population's age structure, male behavior, and paternity patterns have changed over time.
From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2026
In non-human animals, researchers have instead turned to long-term observations of social groups and genetic paternity testing to understand reproductive patterns.
From Science Daily • Jan. 22, 2026
The Employment Rights Act will give workers access to sick pay and paternity leave from the first day on the job and introduce new protections for pregnant women and new mothers.
From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026
“We actually do a DNA test on the infant to determine paternity because we don’t know.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025
The academicians watched my mother as they played with me, to see how she took their games, their dandling of her beloved son, their demonstration of amiable paternity; and her smile warmed us all.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing paternity
It's All in the Family
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Not Your Father's Word List: Pater, Patr
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UCPS 6th Grade Roots List #8
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