Information for Kinship Terminology (lineal Relatives) on Explaining Human Culture

Kinship Terminology (lineal Relatives)

Main Author	Published Year	Title		Document Type	Number of Hypotheses
Murdock, George Peter	1949	Social structure		Book	41	Cite Related Documents More By Author

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Murdock, George Peter	1949	"In the presence of exogamous matrilineal or patrilineal lineages, sibs, phratries, or moieties, terms for lineal relatives tend to be extended, within the same sex and generation, to collateral kinsmen who would be affiliated with them under either unilineal rule of descent" (162)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author