patrilocality
- a word derived from patrilocal.
Example Sentences
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It was this link between one-way genetic flow, patrilocality, and the non-reciprocity of exchange that led me, in Néandertal nu in 2022, to formulate the singular paradox: “Neanderthal, Sapiens: I love you… me neither.”
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
To date, most of the dozen or so prehistoric family trees from Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe suggest patrilocality.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 4, 2023
Others caution that a handful of studies from a 5000-year period across Europe isn’t enough to show patrilocality was a rule.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 4, 2023
Archaeologists had speculated about patrilocality in past societies based on ethnographic evidence and clues from bone chemistry, but had never been able to conclusively demonstrate it.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 4, 2023
That shows men on the island stayed put, whereas women moved in from other islands or the nearby mainland over the course of centuries, a marriage system anthropologists call patrilocality.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 29, 2022
