minority. The state of being a minor; youth, the period of a person’s life prior to reaching adulthood.

The Ancestry screen for each creature shows a mutation counter on both the Matrilineal (mother’s) and Patrilineal (father’s) side. Rather, they are a combination of the parents’ mutation counters plus any actual mutations expressed when the baby was hatched.

It is an exogamic group of blood kin related through the maternal line that recognizes its unity, as reflected in clan names, totemism, and descriptions of the matrilineal clan as “those from one womb” or “one bone.” The matrilineal clan exists among many tribes and peoples at different stages of preclass society.

A person’s lineage is his or her line of ancestors. So matrilineal means basically “through the mother’s line”, just as patrilineal means “through the father’s line”. Matrilineality is an important concept in anthropology; among other things, it usually determines who will inherit property on a person’s death.

: sexual intercourse between persons so closely related that they are forbidden by law to marry also : the statutory crime of such a relationship.

A bilineal system is one in which two lines of descent, matrilineal and patrilineal, are both socially sig- nificant. Succession, inheritance, and so forth, is for some things patrilineal, and for others matrilineal. A person is a member of two unilineal descent groups, and residence generally follows one of them.

ˌmætrɪˈlɪniːəl) Based on or tracing descent through the female line. Synonyms. direct matrilinear lineal. Antonyms. collateral undock indirect dishonest.

Opposite words for matrilineal: other_words.

Opposite of tracing descent only through female lines. patrilineal.

In humans, this means that women inherit family property, children belong to their mothers’ lineages, or newly-married couples live in close proximity to the wife’s kin. Even in these “matrilineal” societies, anthropologists have claimed that men are more important than women.

“Matrilineal” means kinship is passed down through the maternal line….List of matrilineal or matrilocal societies.

matrilineal advantage: the likelihood that children will have a closer relationship to their maternal grandparents — and especially to their maternal grandmother — than to their paternal grandparents.

Schneider also noted that in patrilineal societies authority and kinship were passed on through patrilineal descent, but in matrilineal societies males did not pass their status to their sons. Men’s authority would be based only on their position in the matriliny.