Explanation:

- The statement says the family is due to male possessiveness, jealousy, and growing sense of property.

- Option 1: Morgan - Lewis Henry Morgan studied kinship and family evolution but focused on stages of family development, not mainly on male possessiveness.

- Option 2: Westermark - Edvard Westermarck wrote about the origins of marriage and family but did not mainly argue about male possessiveness and property as central to family formation.

- Option 3: Briffault - ??Correct Answer. Robert Briffault suggested that the family arises from male possessiveness and jealousy, connected to the growth of property and the sense of property.

- Option 4: Merton - Robert K. Merton was a sociologist focused on theories of social structure, not on family origins or male possessiveness.

?? Option:3, Briffault is the correct answer.