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neverstopbelieb

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The standard kinship system in North America as well as in many other industrialized nations is
 
  a. patrilineal descent.
  b. matrilineal descent.
  c. bilateral descent.
  d. mostly patrilineal descent, with an almost equal amount of bilateral descent.
  e. shared by all other nonindustrialized societies in the world.

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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.


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katieost

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Reply #1 on: Jul 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

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neverstopbelieb

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Reply 2 on: Jul 20, 2018
Wow, this really help

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