Anthropologist George Murdock sampled 565 societies and found that

A. over 30 percent of them had no formal procedures for obtaining a divorce.
B. over 75 percent of them had some type of polyandry.
C. over 80 percent of them had some type of polygamy.
D. over 90 percent of them were strictly monogamous.


Answer: C

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