Anthropologist George Murdock sampled 565 societies and found that
A) over 90 percent of them were strictly monogamous.
B) over 80 percent of them preferred polygamy to monogamy.
C) over 30 percent of them had no formal procedures for obtaining a divorce.
D) over 75 percent of them had some type of polyandry.

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George Murdock's study found that over 80 percent of the societies he sampled preferred polygamy to monogamy, indicating that polygamous arrangements were more common than strictly monogamous ones.

Anthropologist George Murdock Sampled 565 Societies and Found That