Ambilineal descent affiliates an individual with kin related to him or her through men or women.

Avunculocal is the least common form of residence pattern.

A lineage is a set or kin whose members believe themselves to be descended from a common ancestor or ancestress, but the links back to that ancestor are not specified.

Most people in the United States practice bilateral kinship system.

Hawaiian system of kinship terminology is the least complex.

Most matrilineal societies practice patrilocal residence.

In America, most newly wedded couples practice either matrilocal or patrilocal residence.

Warfare seems to be closely related to residence patterns.

Matrilineal organizations lead to much greater control of societies by females.

Patrilineal is the most frequent rule of descent.

One of the greater functions of descent groups is that of regulating marriage.

Bilateral is the most frequent rule of descent.

Matrilocal residence is when the daughter stays and the son leaves so that the married couple lives with or near the wife's parents.

A moiety is a unilineal descent group composed of supposedly related clans.

Unilineal descent groups exist in societies at all levels of cultural complexity.