Answer to Question 1
Answer: The ideal answer will include:
1. Unilineal descent is the tracing of descent through one parent.
2. It can be matrilineal or patrilineal.
3. It is found most often in the pastoralist, horticulture, and agriculture modes.
4. The example of naming in Hong Kong illustrates the pattern.
Answer to Question 2
Answer: The ideal answer will include:
1. Bilineal descent makes sense in foraging societies because it provides flexibility and reflects fluid social arrangements.
2. Unilineal descent makes sense in modes where there is a fixed resource basehorticulture, pastoralism, and agriculturebecause it provides stability.
3. Most matrilineal societies are horticulturalists, the mode in which women often have significant responsibility.
4. Bilineal descent is associated with smaller kinship groups and therefore enables the flexibility and spatial mobility associated with industrial/digital economy societies.
Modes of transmission
Two modes of evolutionary change.
Different modes of operation of the pentose phosphate pathway
Prokaryotic Nutritional Modes
Three Modes of Natural Selection
Two of the modes of nucleosome displacement to expose regulatory sequences