polygyny
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A third type of polygyny is a lek system.
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
That’s why some 16 million men today can trace their ancestry back to Genghis Khan, a tyrant who pushed polygyny to its physical limits.
From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2015
As marriage historian Stephanie Coontz has pointed out, polygyny is less about sex than it is about power.
From Slate • Jan. 30, 2012
On the contrary, we find many other causes, chiefly, perhaps, economic, operating also to favor the development of polygyny.
From Sociology and Modern Social Problems by Ellwood, Charles A. (Charles Abram)
