Patrilineality

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Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side^[1] or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through their father's lineage. It generally involves the inheritance of property, rights, names, or titles by persons related through male kin. This is sometimes distinguished from cognate^[2] kinship, through the mother's lineage, also called the spindle side or the distaff side.

A patriline ("father line") is a person's father, and additional ancestors, as traced only through males.

In the Bible

In the Bible, family and tribal membership appears to be transmitted through the father. For example, a person is considered to be a priest or Levite, if his father is a priest or Levite, and the members of all the Twelve Tribes are called Israelites because their father is Israel (Jacob).

In the very first lines of the

is counted through the male lineage.

Agnatic succession

Patrilineal or agnatic succession gives priority to or restricts inheritance of a

.

By the 21st century, most ongoing European monarchies had replaced their traditional agnatic succession with

, meaning that the first child born to a monarch inherits the throne, regardless of the child's sex.

Genetic genealogy

The fact that human Y-chromosome DNA (Y-DNA) is paternally inherited enables patrilines and agnatic kinships of men to be traced through genetic analysis.

Before this discovery, estimates of the date when Y-chromosomal Adam lived were much more recent, estimated to be tens of thousands of years.

See also

• Agnatic seniority
• Derbfine
• Family name
• Historical inheritance systems
• Hypodescent
• Hyperdescent
• Matrilineality
• Matriname
• Order of succession
• Patricide
• Patrilocal residence
• Primogeniture
• Royal and noble ranks
• Y chromosome

References

External links

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Agnates".