Matrilineal descent, which may have been traced by Paleolithic societies, is
a. tracing kinship through female lines
b. unknown today, even among hunter and gatherer societies
c. impossible to maintain for more than a few generations
d. useless today in tracing the origins of early humans
e. tracing lineage through the male lines
Ans: a
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