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patrilinear

ADJECTIVE
  1. based on or tracing descent through the male line
    a patrilineal society

How To Use patrilinear In A Sentence

  • Our nearest relatives, the chimps tend towards matrilinear, while patrilinear seems more prevalent in a majority of the different aboriginity groups in more modern times. Discovered: the basis of human civilization.
  • Not sure if the family units were matrilinear or patrilinear or maybe that depended on where you were. Discovered: the basis of human civilization.
  • Mitochondrial Eve is the female counterpart of the Y - chromosomal Adam, the patrilinear most recent common ancestor.
  • Mitochondrial Eve is the female counterpart of the Y - chromosomal Adam, the patrilinear most recent common ancestor.
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