Social structure

"Age-differentiating terms used by a brother for his sisters . . . are associated with bilateral descent" (110)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Yule’s Q	Supported	`UNKNOWN`	.31	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Descent	Independent	Rules Of Descent
Kinship Terminology	Dependent	Kinship Terminology

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Ember, Carol R.	1974	"Lineages develop prior to putative descent groups" (90)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Carol R.	1974	". . . Unilocality is a necessary but not sufficient condition for unilineal descent" (70)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Sheils, Dean	1975	There will be an association between descent type and ancestor worship. Unilineal descent will be more likely to practice ancestor worship than cognatic descent.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Martin, M. Kay	1975	Societies with a hunting-gathering subsistence base will be patrilocal and patrilineal (185).	Partial support claimed	9	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Carol R.	1974	". . . intergroup competition is the most important catalyst in the formation of unilineal descent groups in unilocal societies" (74)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author