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It provided data from a survey of 1170 societies, showing that a large majority engaged in some form of polygyny, making monogamy the exception rather than the norm.
there was a American psychologist by the name of George Murdoc who wrote a very influential book uh called 'The Ethnographic Atlas' where he surveyed 1170 societies and what he found was that 850 of t...
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It provided data from a survey of 1170 societies, showing that a large majority engaged in some form of polygyny, making monogamy the exception rather than the norm.
there was a American psychologist by the name of George Murdoc who wrote a very influential book uh called 'The Ethnographic Atlas' where he surveyed 1170 societies and what he found was that 850 of those societies partook in polygyny of some of some kind they're polygynous in nature