That bias rightly reflects the biblical concern with patrilineage — tracing families through the male line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebekah: Bible.] Reference

The secondary status of Zilpah as a wife to Jacob did not result in secondary status for her sons within the patrilineage of Jacob.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zilpah: Bible.] Reference

His body symbolizes the future good morality, honor, and reputation of his patrilineage and the performance of certain patrilineal rituals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waldo Jaquith - Allen angry about “Lost Soldiers.”] Reference

Asher and Gad were considered direct heirs to the patrilineage of Terah, their great-great-grandfather, and are listed among the twelve sons/tribes of Jacob/Israel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zilpah: Bible.] Reference

These communities were formed into chiefdoms but were not highly centralized; the basic unit was the homestead, linked to the chiefdom through a patrilineage and a clan.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. South of the Limpopo] Reference

The incorporation of food taboos linked distinctly to one's patrilineage, an institution not customary among matrilineal Bantu people but subscribed to by many Gogo speakers, probably also resulted from this intermingling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

Other food avoidance taboos notable among Kaguru speakers do exist, though they, unlike the Gogo, are not attached to the idea of a predominant patrilineage and are instead commonly connected to beliefs that can, for example, compromise pregnancy. 55.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

The distribution of patrilineage associated food taboos suggests that such beliefs, where they occur among Northeast-Coastal Bantu speakers, represent post proto-NECB borrowings into their descendant societies resulting from interactions with external populations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

For him as for the others, Magude was a meaningful entity to the extent that it was constituted by the claims and actions of men who officially wielded these forms of power: from chiefs, soldiers, and administrators to missionaries, migrant workers, and patrilineage and clan heads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

The historical memories of the "old women" of Magude suggest that, through the nineteenth and much of the twentieth century, the parameters of women's lives were geographically and socially wide-ranging and encompassed networks of relations far more expansive than stereotypes of patrilineage - and marriage-bound Shangaan women allow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

If academic historians take this struggle seriously, as the tenacity and consistency of women's naming memories suggest we should, we can no longer assume that the pasts of rural women in southern Mozambique (and perhaps Africa more broadly) can be contained within the confines of a single state, administrative unit, patrilineage, marital household, or family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

(Unless you're keeping track of an aristocratic patrilineage, a House of this or that.).    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

But finally, the biggest issue is that this is tracing Charles Darwin's patrilineage only.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

As Y chromosomes are only passed from father to son, that would mean that the Y is a record of one's patrilineage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discover Blogs] Reference

There are two possibilities to explain the nine individuals that have an aurochs matrilineage and a taurine patrilineage.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

With little time left to establish his political clout - Kim Jong Il is thought to be in poor health - North Korea appears to be relying on the pull of patrilineage to justify his future role.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference

45The roles played by the various women in the excerpt are seen as quite flexible, but there does seem to have been some regard for pulling a woman from the line of the patrilineage of her father or, if she had one, her husband.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

This energy is thought to guarantee the continuation of the blood of a male’s patrilineage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waldo Jaquith - Allen angry about “Lost Soldiers.”] Reference

Esau’s marriage to a woman outside his family’s descent line results in his exclusion from the endogamous patrilineage of Abraham’s father, Terah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adah 2: Bible.] Reference