Despite, or perhaps because of, this late arrival social anthropologists are much given to tracing their intellectual pedigree to as remote and as illustrious ancestors as they can uncover.

Those critics obsessed with my genealogy ought to examine my intellectual pedigree, which includes advanced study of Descartes, Kant and Nietzsche, among others.

However, there is no disputing the intellectual pedigree that his kinfolk subsequently established.

His intellectual pedigree is so backward as to be an affront to even a moron.

A Swiss-born architect whose intellectual pedigree descends from the French student upheavals of 1968 designs a student center for a university that experienced similar convulsions later that year.

Academic degrees . . . intellectual pedigrees, who you trained with . . . publications.

It has no doubts about its intellectual pedigree and has a stronger claim to a positive philosophy than the left, which is at bottom antiphilosophical.

This is the idea that denunciation can help to reduce the incidence of crime - a notion which may at first seem somewhat obscure, but which has a distinguished intellectual pedigree.

To my eye, the designs fulfill Robert Venturi's idea of complexity and contradiction far more persuasively than the nostalgic postmodern architecture that claimed Venturi for its intellectual pedigree.