Table 3.

Rules of descent and seed transmission strategies

		Modes of transmission†
Community	Rules of descent*	M	MM	Z	HM	HMM	HZ	R	C	N	O	Pg
DUA	3M	0.93						0.07
IMB	3P	0.24	0.43		0.10			0.14		0.29	0.05
MAN	2M	0.44		0.06				0.06		0.17	0.39
MBG	1P	0.21			0.79
MKA	1M/1X	0.94						0.06
MOP	5P/3M	0.24	0.05	0.10	0.19	0.05	0.10	0.05	0.10	0.24	0.14
MYB	1X	0.40	0.33		0.13					0.20
NBD	1M	0.93	0.07	0.29				0.21		0.21	0.36
ODB	1P/3M	0.33								0.25	0.42	0.67
ODJ	1M	0.87								0.68	0.32

*Number of groups with patrilineal (P), matrilineal (M), or mixed (X) descent (details in Dataset S1).

^†M, mother; MM, grandmother (mother's mother); Z, sister; HM, mother-in-law (husband's mother); HMM, grandmother-in-law (husband's mother's mother); HZ, sister-in-law (husband's sister); R, other relatives; C, Rivale (concubine in polygynous households); N, neighborhood; O, other villages; Pg, development program. Values reported in the table indicate the percentage of farmers mentioning each source (several sources are possible).