How do bilateral kinship systems differ from other kinship systems?

a. Unlike cognate systems, in a bilateral system descent is traced through either gender.
b. Unlike cognate systems, bilateral kinship is only traced through a single gender.
c. Unlike both cognate and unilineal systems, bilateral systems have no large, property holding groups.
d. Unlike unilineal systems, bilateral systems trace descent only through a single gender.


c

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