Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology

There is a co-evolutionary relationship between bifurcate-merging terminology and cross-cousin marriage.

Tested 56 Bantu societies.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Bayesian correlated evolution phylogenetic approach	Not Supported	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Cross-cousin Marriage	Association	Regulation Of Marriage, Cousins
Bifurcate-merging terminology	Association	Kinship Terminology

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Aberle, David F.	1961	"By comparison with bifurcate collateral terminology, bifurcate collateral terminology, bifurcate merging terminology tends to be associated with matriliny. . . . By comparison with derivative bifurcate merging terminology, it is also associated with matriliny . . ." (712)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1949	"Sororal polygyny tends to be associated with kinship terminology of the bifurcate merging type for aunts and for nieces by marriage" (143)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1947	". . . [there is] a strong tendency for bifurcate merging to be associated with exogamy and to be lacking in the absence of exogamy" (59)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1947	". . . unilinear descent . . . may suffice to produce bifurcate merging" (59)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1947	"This social classification and differentiation [of moieties] . . . should tend to produce a corresponding effect on kinship terminology, and thus result in the phenomenon of bifurcate merging" (57)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author