Usually means: Inheritance traced through both parents.
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  4. Bilateral descent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (bilateral descent)

noun:  Descent traced from all biological descendants, regardless of sex and side of the family.
noun:  Descent traced from an ancestor, regardless of sex and side of the family of the intervening generations.

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