In the majority of cultures of the world, polygyny is:

a. the preferred form of marriage.
b. practiced by the majority of wealthy men in the world.
c. less common than polyandry.
d. considered by anthropologists to be less moral than monogamy.
e. a form of marriage in which the man exerts his domination over the women.


a

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