polygyny
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In resourced-based polygyny, males compete for territories with the best resources, and then mate with females that enter the territory, drawn to its resource richness.
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
Coontz points to past Native American societies that occasionally engaged in what’s known as sororal polygyny, in which a man married to one woman might also marry her sister, perhaps after the sister’s husband died.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2012
Among all peoples at a certain stage the honor of wife capture has alone been a prolific cause of polygyny.
From Sociology and Modern Social Problems by Charles A. (Charles Abram) Ellwood
