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by solidsnack9000 2941 days ago
So assuming that clans tend to get wiped out all of a piece, and males cross clans much less frequently than clans get wiped out, many of the Y-chromosome lines will go extinct, but few of the mitochondrial DNA lines will go extinct?

There are a very few matrilocal human societies; perhaps they show the obverse pattern.