Patrilineal in a sentence as an adjective

In patrilineal clans, all males share the same Y chromosome since they are all related.

In Spain, children take one name from their father and one from their mother, every child is named using the patrilineal names of there two grandfathers.

They are one of the few aristocratic families that has an intact patrilineal descent going back to the Norman conquest.

Per wikipedia it's a patrilineal system, where women are eligible to succeed to the throne but their children aren't.

It developed as the result of a lower class being subjugated by a very patrilineal upper class nobility.

> India’s patrilineal traditions dictate that the eldest son care for his parents in old age and inherit property, while the dowries paid to marry off daughters can be expensive.

Nevertheless, even this fails to stand to scrutiny as exposure to the patrilineal mainstream Chinese society means most men just leave for greener pastures in mainstream Chinese society.

Over a wide range of cultures men on average mate with women who are younder than them, so the time between generations by patrilineal descent will be greater than the time by matrilineal descent.

"----"One particular haplotype within Haplogroup C3 has received a great deal of attention for the possibility that it may represent direct patrilineal descent from Genghis Khan.

They likely wouldn't agree on who is a Jew either, since their different ideological foundations would lead them to different positions on issues such as conversion standards and patrilineal descent.

It is the difference between "things have mixed so much that everyone is your ancestor somehow" and "on a strict matrilineal or patrilineal descent, everyone winds up at the same thing".In the first the path goes through both fathers and mothers.

But Western civilization has a much deeper culture of patrilineal succession, of the priesthood being restricted to men, of only men having political representation, of the father being the head of the household, etc.

In this study, we use a large-scale incentivized experiment with nearly 1,300 participants to show that the gender gap in spatial abilities, measured by time to solve a puzzle, disappears when we move from a patrilineal society to an adjoining matrilineal society.

We can get around this by making value judgements that say "only the direct matrilineal line ancestors count" or "only the direct patrilineal line ancestors count", but ideas like that are absolutely human value judgements made as a reaction to the overwhelming complexity above, and have no basis in biology.

There has been a tendency to emphasise the importance of male-male relationships in an essentially patrilineal form of social organisation as defining human sociality [20], but our results tend to support the claim that mother-daughter relationships play a particularly seminal role in structuring human social relationships, as has been suggested by some sociological studies [21].

Patrilineal definitions

adjective

based on or tracing descent through the male line; "a patrilineal society"

See also: patrilinear