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Which anthropologist analyzed 565 societies and discovered that 80 percent have some type of polygamy and 64 percent gave preference to one side of the family or the other tracing descent?
This sounds like George Murdock and his research involving the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) -(now) online database of ethnography. Housed at Yale, I think.
I've seen a figure like this quoted in Daly and Wilson's book, Sex, Evolution, and Human Behavior.
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John Shea
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John Shea
Expertise
Questions about Old World prehistoric archaeology (especially Stone Age) of Europe, Africa, and Western Asia, prehistoric human and hominid behavior, primitive technology, origin of modern humans, extinction of the Neandertals.
Experience
>20 years as a professional anthropologist based at a research university.
Publications
Journal of Field Archaeology, Journal of Archaeological Science, Lithic Technology, Evolutionary Anthropology, Current Anthropology, Mitekufat HaEven (Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society), Paléorient, Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, American Anthropologist, Geoarchaeology.
Education/Credentials
Ph.D (Anthropology) Harvard University, 1991.
BA (Archaeology) Boston University, 1982.
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