Social structure

"Age-differentiating terms used by a brother for his sisters . . . are associated with bilateral descent" (110)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Yule’s Q	Supported	`UNKNOWN`	.31	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Descent	Independent	Rule Of Descent
Kinship Terminology	Dependent	Kinship Terminology

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Maxwell, Robert J.	1989	Gerontocide will be negatively associated with rule of descent (518).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Carol R.	1974	". . . Unilocality is a necessary but not sufficient condition for unilineal descent" (70)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Carol R.	1974	"Lineages develop prior to putative descent groups" (90)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Korotayev, Andrey V.	2003	Deep Christianization will be associated with the decline of unilineal descent groups (p. 135).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Carol R.	1974	". . . intergroup competition is the most important catalyst in the formation of unilineal descent groups in unilocal societies" (74)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author