* McFarland Dianic, a Neopagan Faerie Faith lineage tradition started by Morgan McFarland ; one of relatively few Dianic traditions which accepts male members.

Historically, the succession to Japan's Chrysanthemum Throne has always passed to descendants in male line from the imperial lineage.

To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine, and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage and to teach them this art-if they desire to learn it-without fee and covenant ; to give a share of precepts and oral instruction and all the other learning to my sons and to the sons of him who has instructed me and to pupils who have signed the covenant and have taken an oath according to the medical law, but to no one else.

In countries without a formal female monastic lineage, women may take other religious roles, but they are generally not granted the same rights and privileges as recognized male monastics.

Generally, before the information era, male babies were preferred because they provided manual labor and success the family lineage.

In a 2004 study, analysis of the HV1 sequence obtained from a male Scytho-Siberian's remains at the Kizil site in the Altai Republic revealed the individual possessed the N1a maternal lineage.

" The common critical consensus of HCE's fixed character is summarised by Bishop as being " an older Protestant male, of Scandinavian lineage, connected with the pubkeeping business somewhere in the neighbourhood of Chapelizod, who has a wife, a daughter, and two sons.

A Reverend Mother has access only to her female lineage in Other Memory ; her male line is unavailable to her, present as a dark void that terrifies her.

Valkenburg is no longer a fortified city but retained its importance nevertheless. The rulers lineage has long been lost in the sands of time, but a long term legend of the Valkenburg residents is that each male of royal blood has a birth mark on his chest.

Because the human Y chromosome changes relatively slowly over time and is only passed along the direct male line, it may be used to trace paternal lineage.

Its relationship to other falcons is not clear ; the issue is complicated by widespread hybridization confounding mtDNA sequence analyses ; for example a genetic lineage of the Saker Falcon ( F. cherrug ) is known which originated from a male Saker producing fertile young with a female Peregrine ancestor, and the descendants further breeding with Sakers.

The Edinburgh scholar L. P. Elwell-Sutton, in a 1975 article critical of what he called " pseudo-Sufis " like Gurdjieff and Shah, opined that Graves had been trying to " upgrade " Shah's " rather undistinguished lineage ", and that the reference to Mohammed's senior male line of descent was a " rather unfortunate gaffe ", as Mohammed's sons had all died in infancy.

In addition, the Sadducees address the issue of resurrection through the lens of marriage, which “ hinted at their real agenda: the protection of property rights through patriarchal marriage that perpetuated the male lineage.

This study, and others, report that Y-chromosome patrilines crossed from the Asian mainland into the Japanese archipelago, and continue to make up a large proportion of the Japanese male lineage.

When Ptolemy XI died without a male heir, the only available male descendents of the Ptolemy I lineage were the illegitimate sons of Ptolemy IX by an unknown Greek concubine.

A Y-chromosome lineage is halted when a male dies without leaving any male offspring ( although this individual may or may not have had daughters ).

Models for the timing and biogeography of their domestication and subsequent husbandry have been put forward, mainly based on mitochondrial DNA variation, though other markers are currently being analysed to supplement the genetic narrative ( e. g., the Y chromosome for describing the history of the male lineage ).

Ostensibly the easiest period, as the Bible provides an unbroken male lineage from Adam through to Solomon complete with the ages of the individuals involved.

She is also the first westerner, male or female, to be installed as an abbot in the Drikung Kagyu lineage of Buddhism, having been installed as the abbot of the Vajra Dakini Nunnery in 2004.

Arriaga's father was a rich merchant in the city, only son, and property-owner, whose heritage traced his lineage to the Fleming Joss van Aard, one of the original settlers of the island of Faial ( of the male line to a Basque family of small nobility ) and whose second cousin was Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo, 1st Marquess of Sá da Bandeira.

Nor were the grandees or ducal families of Portugal and Spain ( where titles, being habitually transmissible through both male and female lines, were often inherited by relatives of non-patrilineal lineage ).

The recounting of this lineage plays a role in the incest taboo: if a male and female Akha find a common male ancestor within their last six generations, they are not allowed to marry.

In the early Safavid era ( 1501 – 1723 ), male houses of prostitution ( amrad khane ) were legally recognized and paid taxes.

" Ever since the time of my ancestor Ali, the first Imam, that is to say over a period of thirteen hundred years, it has always been the tradition of our family that each Imam chooses his successor at his absolute and unfettered discretion from amongst any of his descendants, whether they be sons or remote male issue and in these circumstances and in view of the fundamentally altered conditions in the world in very recent years due to the great changes which have taken place including the discoveries of atomic science, I am convinced that it is in the best interest of the Shia Muslim Ismailia Community that I should be succeeded by a young man who has been brought up and developed during recent years and in the midst of the new age and who brings a new outlook on life to his office as Imam.

The only other male member of the family is the brother of Charles, Prince Jérôme, ( born 1957 ), unmarried.

If the descent were truly unbroken, father-to-son, since Confucius's lifetime, the males in the family would all have the same Y chromosome as their direct male ancestor, with slight mutations due to the passage of time.

His survival led to his being declared Emperor by the Praetorian Guard after Caligula's assassination, at which point he was the last adult male of his family.

In 1728, the Carbognano branch ( Colonna di Sciarra ) of the Colonna family added the name Barberini to its family name when Giulio Cesare Colonna di Sciarra married Cornelia Barberini, daughter of the last male Barberini to hold the name and grand-daughter of Maffeo Barberini ( son of Taddeo Barberini ).

Penguins on the dimly lit Antarctic ice ; ... a family of gorillas, the male beating his chest, ... an American grizzly bear standing on his hind legs, ten or twelve feet tall, and staring me right in the eye.

This conflict eventually led to the destruction of her family, with Caligula as the sole male survivor.

In an effort to control the size of the imperial family, the law stipulates that only legitimate male descendants in the male line can be dynasts ; that imperial princesses lose their status as Imperial Family members if they marry outside the Imperial Family ; and that the Emperor and other members of the Imperial Family may not adopt children.

Until the birth of Prince Hisahito, son of Prince Akishino, on September 6, 2006, there was a potential succession problem, since Prince Akishino was the only male child to be born into the imperial family since 1965.

Later it has been a tradition to name all male members of the Imperial family personally this way.

As the only male left in the family, Wright assumed financial responsibility for his mother and two sisters.

Three DNA types are of particular interest: mitochondrial DNA that we all possess and that is passed down with only minor mutations through the matrilineal ( direct female ) line ; the Y-chromosome, present only in males, which is passed down with only minor mutations through the patrilineal ( direct male ) line ; and the Autosomal DNA, which is found in the 22 non-gender specific chromosomes ( autosomes ) inherited from both parents, which can uncover relatives from any branch of the family.

The advertisement featured a family with the mother replaced by a male New York deli worker.

In fact, Baldung was the first male in his family not to attend university.

His heirs, Earls of Abercorn, heirs male of the Hamilton family from 1651, became Marquesses of Abercorn in 1790, and Dukes of Abercorn in 1868 ; the 2nd Duke of Abercorn ( b. 1838 ) being a prominent Unionist politician and chairman of the British South Africa Company.

By 1912, 16 % of peasants ( up from 11 % in 1903 ) had relatively large endowments of over per male family member ( a threshold used in statistics to distinguish between middle-class and prosperous farmers, i. e., kulaks ).

In 1437 the imperial Luxembourg family became extinct in the male line.

* Ananda Marga has both monks and nuns ( i. e. celibate male and female acharyas or missionaries ) as well as a smaller group of family acharyas.

Upperstall. com wrote " Madhuri gives a wonderful insightful performance as the self-respecting educated woman married into a family of male chauvanistic upper class landlords and who is humiliated by her husband when she objects to his misdeeds, never hitting a false note.

Generally such children could have no official place in the tribe because their fathers did not belong to it, unless they were adopted by a male and made part of his family.

All but one of the male scions of the Altieri family had chosen the ecclesiastical career.

Most prairie dog family groups are made up of one adult breeding male, two to three adult females and one to two male offspring and one to two female offspring.