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Keywords: Lemuridae, Lemurs, Family, Broadly, Relative

Related Terms: Genealogy, Clan, Adoption, Ancestor, Ancestry, Child, Common, Consanguinity, Descendant, Family, Incest, Issue, Lineage, Monophyletic, Nation, Nuclear Family, Order, Orphan, Parent, Polyphyletic, Relative, Taxon, Extended Family, Clade, Cladistics, Generation, Aumakua, Outgroup, Paraphyletic, Taxa, Descent Group, Symplesiomorphy, Coterie, Family Group Sheet, Pedigree Chart, Common Ancestor, Families, Adoptive Parent, Family Life Cycle, Ingroup, Kindred, Sibling, Monophyletic Group, Ancestors, Adopted Child, Child, Family Tree, Ohana, Stirpes

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Relatives; persons of the same family or race.

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an individual's relatives

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The term used for placement of a child with a family member of the birth parents.

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Persons of the same blood or members of the same family.

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Biological family; used interchangeably with "relative." At times, kin is used more broadly to include other persons with a close relationship to the family.

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Refers to animals within the same Family - for example; ring-tailed lemurs and black lemurs are both within the Family: Lemuridae, therefore are Kin. Generally speaking, only those sharing the same Kinship groups can hybridise.

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