polygamy
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Overall, the differences were smallest in monogamous species, while polygamy and pronounced size differences were associated with a more pronounced advantage for females.
From Science Daily • Oct. 28, 2025
The DNA also revealed polygamy and “levirate unions,” in which closely related males—brothers, or a father and son—had children with the same woman.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 24, 2024
He was married to Irene Mzila, a nurse, eschewing the polygamy followed by many Zulu chiefs.
From Reuters • Sep. 9, 2023
Lethabo admits that some of their peers still do not get it and often mistake it for polygamy, which is common among some South African communities.
From BBC • Jul. 21, 2023
The church had ended the temporal practice of polygamy in 1890, but it had never recanted the doctrine.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
