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- noun A socially instituted practice whereupon a
married couple lives with or near the family of thehusband .
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Examples
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Patrilineal inheritance and kinship as well as patrilocality make boys more valuable to the natal family.
Archive 2009-01-01 Renee 2009
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That includes the adult women, who - analysis of bone composition shows -- grew up outside the immediate area, suggesting the practice of exogamy (marrying outside the group) and patrilocality (women moving to their husbands 'families).
Philip N. Cohen: Family Diversity in the Later Stone Age 2008
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That is, some researchers have assumed that the prevalence of patrilocality and polygyny in relation to matrilocality and polyandry, combined with the structural fact that the X is disproportionately carried in females, can explain the differences in patterns of genetic variation.
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It also seems that while localized gene flow is more likely to be female-mediated (due to dominance of patrilocality worldwide), this long range gene flow is more likely to be male-mediated.
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This is an indication of exogamy (marrying out) and patrilocality (the females moving to the location of the males).
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