polyandry
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Some modern scholars consider Darwin's failure to recognize polyandry as the wrench jamming up the works of evolution to be one of his biggest oversights.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2022
The term polyandry comes from the Greek words for ‘many’ and ‘man.’
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
While the tomb reveals evidence of polygyny - men having children with multiple women - it also shows that polyandry was also widespread: women having children with multiple men.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2021
“I wouldn’t suggest polyandry if the gender ratio was not so severely imbalanced,” Yew-Kwang Ng, who is Malaysian, wrote in his regular column on a Chinese business website this month.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2020
Real polyandry may doubtless be explained by the idea of the common right of possession among brothers; it has, in most cases, this significance.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams
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