Sentence examples for maternal kinship from inspiring English sources

Our finding therefore suggests that maternal kinship was not frequent in the small ancient societies.

We found only three cases of possible maternal kinship at the eight burial sites.

No maternal kinship was observed for two individuals from Galgedil (G9 and G11) who were buried in the same grave.

Although paternal kinship has been found to influence social behavior in rhesus macaque societies [46], maternal kinship is certainly the stronger organizing principle in rhesus macaques.

The higher frequencies of Hg I can not be ascribed to maternal kinship, since only two individuals share the same common motif (K2 and K7 at Kongemarken).

In particular, the influence of maternal kinship on group structure results in inheritance of maternal rank, which creates a hierarchy in which entire matrilines outrank other matrilines [14], [40].

These are: Haig and colleagues' kinship theory; Day and Bonduriansky's sexual antagonism theory; and Wolf and Hager's maternal offspring coadaptation theory.

It should be noted, however, that while a mtDNA haplogroup mismatch excludes maternal relationship a match has limited informative value and given its maternal mode of inheritance mtDNA haplotyping gives no information as to paternal kinship.

However, we were able to include this case, because the individual was used as a mother in a son-mother condition not requiring the ID of her maternal grandfather for kinship verification.

Of the 21 remaining non-maternal sharing events where kinship and co-roosting associations were known, 16 involved close kin (r = 0.25 or greater) and only one involved non-kin.

They do not exhibit a similar preference for their paternal half sisters, which may mean that they only are capable of recognizing kinship through the maternal line.