While patrilineal traditions, like passing on the father’s last name to children, persist, most families in industrial societies trace descent through both men and women.
12. Yet most ancestry testing only considers a single lineage, either the Y chromosome inherited through men in a father's line or mitochondrial DNA, which is passed down only from mothers.
12. 然而,大多数血统测试只考虑单一血统,要么是通父系男性遗传的 Y 染色体,要么是仅从母亲遗传下来的线粒体 DNA。
Some of these inequalities might be obvious, based on what we’ve talked about already – like patrilineal lines of descent that make it impossible for women to hold wealth or gain power.
" M'Lord Baron." The man who stood outside the doorfield of the Baron's bedchamber was low built, gross of face and body, with the Harkonnen paternal line's narrow-set eyes and bulge of shoulders.