The development of formal, non-kin, organization means that:
a. the appropriation of the right by the state to decide which acts will be punished as crimes
b. the end of kin relations as an important factor in society
c. political succession based on a family system
d. the transition from a ranked to an egalitarian structure
e. the end of an institutional religion
a
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