(from the article `descent`) One method of limiting the recognition of kinship is to emphasize the relationships through one parent only. Such `unilineal` kinship systems, as ... descent group reckoned through only one parent, either paternal (patrilineage) or maternal (matrilineage). All members of such a group trace their .... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/28
patrilineal, patrilineage 1. Designating or of descent, kinship, or derivation through the father instead of the mother. 2. Related to descent through the male line; inheritance of the Y chromosome is exclusively patrilineal. Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/2572/3