But Pitanguy, whose patients often have mixed African, indigenous and European ancestry, stresses that aesthetic ideals vary by epoch and ethnicity.
To be sure, modernism had its illustrious intellectual ancestry.
Martin has shown that, of the eukaryotic genes whose ancestry can be traced, 75 per cent or more came from bacteria rather than the host cell.
But today, Mr Yapias says ruefully, it is the Mexicans and Chicanos (American citizens of Mexican ancestry), as well as other Latinos such as himself (born in Peru), who tend to be asked for papers.
So despite her best intentions to teach me about my ancestry, I just couldn't understand what race, or more importantly what I personally, had to do with slavery.
Many more changed their names, clothing and other giveaway features of their ancestry to escape persecution.
If it depends on ancestry, get out that copy of the Nuremberg laws.
In this way,more than500years ago,Prince William,Bush and Churchill are exactly blood relatives sharing the same ancestry.
Until recently it had been a monopoly of the ladinos (people of European or mixed ancestry), even though some 40% of Guatemala's population of 13m is of Mayan descent.
We will also attune oneself to their ancestry on other dimensions learning parallel lessons in human form so that you may grow and evolve together.