Talk:Patrilineality

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[edit] Merge

Merge. Patrilineage is a stub of a stub and is compatible with this larger article. Lethiere 22:10, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History of Medicine

How does that fit into the context of the article? We are speaking about patrilineality and not ancient ideas about conception. --Sven Lotz 11:58, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

It is clearly relevant. Aristotle's one-seed theory could be used to justify an agnatic theory of relationship, while Galen's two-seed theory fits with a cognatic theory. And Galen lived around the time when Roman law was making the change from one to the other.

If you want the article to be confined to the legal and sociological issue, the part about Y chromosomes and mitochondrial Eve should also go; but once the scientific and medical side is mentioned at all, ancient theories are as relevant as modern, if not more so (as they were a possible influence on ancient institutions). --Sir Myles na Gopaleen (the da) 16:59, 26 July 2007 (UTC)