In these cases of the duck and turkey we see that animals, like plants, do not depart from their primitive type until they have been subjected during several generations to domestication.
When an individual having some recognizable peculiarity unites with another of the same sub-variety, not having the peculiarity in question, it often reappears in the descendants after an interval of several generations.
For the sake of a concrete example, let us suppose that a man, in whose ancestry tuberculosis has appeared for several generations, is contemplating marriage.
But claims for respect made on that ground alone are, from a biological point of view, negligible, if the hero is several generations removed.
A general high level of morality and mentality in a family is much more advantageous, from the eugenic point of view, than one "lion" several generations back.
When an individual having some recognisable peculiarity unites with another of the same sub-variety, not having the peculiarity in question, it often reappears in the descendants after an interval of several generations.
They painted to decorate churches which themselves represented the pious work of several generations of a given city.
This plant, moreover, has been cultivated under glass for several generations in pots, and therefore under nearly uniform conditions.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "several generations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
