On the development of unilineal descent

"Lineages develop prior to putative descent groups" (90)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
analysis of variance (non-parametric)	Supported	p<.05	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Descent Groups	Association	Rules Of Descent
Population	Association	Population

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Goody, Jack	1970	"The tables show a strong correlation between Omaha terms and patrilineal unilineal descent groups and between Crow terms and matrilineal unilineal descent groups" (140)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Goody, Jack	1970	". . . descent groups of the matrilineal kind are significantly less likely to be found in the Eurasian continent. Matrilineal descent groups . . . are found more frequently in Africa than in Eurasia" (636)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Carol R.	1974	". . . there is a positive association between the number of putative unilineal groups at the highest level of unilineal descent in the society and the total number of persons in the society" (85)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ritter, Madeline Lattman	1980	The presence of age-set systems will be negatively associated with territorially-based descent groups (90).	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Carol R.	1974	". . . societies with internal warfare would tend to have at least one level of unilineal descent group typically contiguous, whereas societies with purely external warfare would not be as likely to have contiguous descent groups" (78)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author