If a biological father has little to do with his biological offspring, and instead spends most of his time with his sister's children who call him by a term meaning "father" rather than "uncle," the descent system of these people is most likely
a. patrilineal.
b. matrilineal.
c. bilateral.
d. a moiety.
e. a faulty residential pattern.
b
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