Lineage - Definition and Overview

Lineage refers to:

• kinship and descent, a concept of cultural anthropology used to track kinship and descent.
• Lineage (evolution), a group composed of species, taxa, or individuals that are related by descent from a common ancestor, also called a clade
• Lineage, an Massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by NCsoft.
• Lineage, a line of transmission of Buddhist teachers, particularly in Zen.