Early anthropologists identified how many primary systems used to classify relatives in the parental generation, including the bifurcate merging system?

a) 2 b) 3 c) 4 d) 5

C - 4

Explanation:

There are four main headings that anthropologists use to categorize rules of descent. They are bilateral, unilineal, ambilineal and double descent. Bilateral descent or two-sided descent affiliates an individual more or less equally with relatives on his father's and mother's sides.