Lineage

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, a line of transmission of Buddhist teachers, particularly in Zen.
• Lineage, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by NCsoft.