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Chapter Seven Pre-reading

Chapter Seven Pre-reading

Q Question 1 10 / 10 pts A descent group consists of a married couple and their children. Question 2 10 / 10 pts With patrilineal descent, a person takes her or his father’s last name but recognizes descent through both parents. Question 3 10 / 10 pts In unilineal descent, one’s ancestry is traced through either the male or the female line (not both). Question 4 10 / 10 pts Members of a clan claim (but cannot demonstrate) descent from a common apical ancestor.

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1.False Yes, a decent group is much larger than just a married couple and their children. 2.False Yes this is false, With patrilineal decent, the children of the group's women are excluded. 3.True 4.True 5.False You are right! This is false. The nuclear family is the parents and children only. (By the way, "The Nuclear Family" was also a sketch that was done on Saturday Night Live, about a family that lived near a nuclear power plant.)