Which of the Following Are Observations About Kinship

question 21

Multiple Choice

Which of the following are observations about kinship?

• 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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