Patrilocal residence

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Neanderthals and early hominins

It is claimed that the practice was also prevalent in some Neanderthal populations. the 49,000-year-old grave was found in Spain in 2010 which contained three related-to-each-other males, with three unrelated-to-each-other females, suggesting they were the partners of the males.

A 2011 examine using ratios of strontium isotopes in teeth also suggested that roughly 2 million years ago, among Australopithecus as well as Paranthropus robustus groups in southern Africa, women tended to resolve farther from their region of birth than men did.