1. The main types of the unilineal descent groups are lineages and clans. 2. Both patrilineality and matrilineality are types of unilineal descent. 3. It claims " they had a double unilineal kinship system with localised patrilineages. 4. Thibodeaux argues that public sociology relies on a dialectical, unilineal evolutionary view of social change. 5. Today most anthropologists reject 19th-century notions of progress and the three assumptions of unilineal evolution. 6. This ladder-like ordering was taken to be a strict, linear progression, or unilineal evolution. 7. The system is widely used in non-unilineal societies, where the dominant relatives are the immediate family. 8. Today most anthropologists continue to reject 19th century notions of progress and the three original assumptions of unilineal evolution. 9. Many anthropologists and social theorists now consider unilineal cultural and social evolution a Western power by the �lites of society. 10. Unilineal lineages can be matrilineal or patrilineal, depending on whether they are traced through mothers or fathers, respectively.
