Patrilineal Descent Groups

question 35

Multiple Choice

Patrilineal descent groups:

• A) are the most common of the unilineal descent groups.
• B) are found only in North and South America.
• C) trace descent through lines of females; for example, the mother, mother's mother, sister's daughter, and so on.
• D) are ones in which a woman's children are members of her descent group.
• E) are ones in which a woman's female children are members of her descent group, while her male children are always allied with their father.

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