Which of the Following Observations About Kinship Is Stressed by the Authors

question 62

Multiple Choice

Which of the following observations about kinship is stressed by the authors of the text?

• A) Different societies have chosen to highlight some features of the universal human experiences of mating, birth, and nurturance while downplaying or ignoring others.
• B) Kinship is reducible to biology.
• C) Patrilineal descent makes more sense than matrilineal descent, given what is known about mating and birth.
• D) Kinship is a difficult and complex set of rules that societies follow.

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