What is patrilineal descent?

What will be an ideal response?


This is a kinship system in which individuals trace their primary kinship relationships through their fathers.

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The order Primates can be divided into two suborders called

A) Hominoidea and Anthropoidea B) Platyrrhini and Catarrhini C) Haplorhini and Strepsirhini D) Lemuroidea and Cercopithecoidea E) Prosimii and Anthropoidea

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List five consequences of the change to food production

What will be an ideal response?

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The Hawaiian system of terminology is strongly tied into the unilineal descent system

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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The existence of pluralistic societies postdate:

a. the rise of politically centralized states b. the Industrial Revolution c. the 20th-century ethnic diaspora d. the rise of dictatorships

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