Bifurcate merging:  a test of five theories

". . . rules of preferential mating, especially the levirate and sororate, may produce . . . [bifurcate merging]" (60)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Coefficient of association	Not Supported	above .10	.13	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Bifurcate Merging Kinship Terminology	Dependent	Kinship Terminology
Sororal Polygyny	Independent	Secondary Marriages

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Murdock, George Peter	1947	". . . [there is] a strong tendency for bifurcate merging to be associated with exogamy and to be lacking in the absence of exogamy" (59)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1947	". . . unilinear descent . . . may suffice to produce bifurcate merging" (59)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1947	"This social classification and differentiation [of moieties] . . . should tend to produce a corresponding effect on kinship terminology, and thus result in the phenomenon of bifurcate merging" (57)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1949	"Matrilocal and avunculocal residence tend to be associated with kinship terminology of the bifurcate merging type" (149)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1949	"Patrilocal and matri-patrilocal residence tend to be associated with kinship terminology of the bifurcate merging type" (150)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author