It is a matrilinear society, you are part of your mother's clan. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The emphasis on Pictish matrilinear succession was a Victorian product. ❋ Carla (2008)
They wanted to portray the Picts as alien as possible just look at the paintings of stark naked Picts with tattoes everywhere, and since male succession was the norm in most of known history, matrilinear looked pretty exotic. ❋ Carla (2008)
Or that the Picts had a matrilinear society because the King's list doesn't show a father-son connection. ❋ Carla (2006)
Not sure if the family units were matrilinear or patrilinear or maybe that depended on where you were. ❋ Ann Althouse (2005)
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. ❋ Ann Althouse (2005)
Here note: (1) that Darerca is given the ancestry attributed in the _Book of Leinster_ pedigree to Beoit, thus hinting at an originally _matrilinear_ form of the official pedigree: (2) that the settlement of the family in Cenel ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Although this cannot be proved, it seems quite plausible because we know of matrilinear societies in the South of China at later times. ❋ Wolfram Eberhard (1949)
From these facts and from the general structure of Shang religion it has been concluded that there was a strong matrilinear strain in Shang culture. ❋ Wolfram Eberhard (1949)
However, the majority of molecular genetic studies focused on matrilinear inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), thus solely reflecting the history of female individuals. ❋ Ruth Bollongino Et Al. (2008)
The fetal programming concept suggests that physiology and metabolism, including growth and fat accumulation of the developing fetus, and, thus its birth weight, depend on intergenerational signal of environmental quality passed through generations of matrilinear ancestors. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The concept of fetal programming suggests that physiology and metabolism including growth and fat accumulation of the developing fetus, and, thus its birth weight, depend on intergenerational signal of environmental quality passed through generations of matrilinear ancestors. ❋ Unknown (2008)
3 In a word, it is now a matter of almost universal agreement among sociologists that whatever advantages the matrilinear system may have secured for women, only in a few cases can the system be in any way correlated with power or emancipation. ❋ Charles Kay (1915)
Dionysius is the Son of his Mother because he issues from a matrilinear group. [ ❋ Robert Ezra Park (1926)
