Systems of descent, the ways in which people trace kinship generation after generation, are __________.

a. matrilineal everywhere but in the United States
b. remarkably similar throughout the world
c. different all over the world
d. bilineal in the United States, but patriarchal everywhere else


Ans: c. different all over the world

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