-
rather than
economic and productive" (1973:189),
arguing that men
marry polygynously to
maximize their fertility and to
obtain large households containing...
-
Xylocopa sonorina,
Anthidium manicatum and elk.[citation needed]
Often in
polygynous systems,
females will
provide the
majority of
parental care. When two...
-
extreme ****ual size dimorphism, such as
elephant seals, tend to have
highly polygynous mating systems,
presumably due to
selection for
success in competition...
- dimorphism, and the ****es are
similar in appearance. This
species mates both
polygynously and monogamously. The
great reed
warbler was
formally described in 1758...
- The gyne (/ˈɡaɪn/, from Gr**** γυνή, "woman") is the
primary reproductive female caste of
social insects (especially ants, wasps, and bees of
order Hymenoptera...
-
powerful Viking men
tended to have many
wives and concubines; and
these polygynous relationships may have led to a
shortage of
women available to the Viking...
- polyandry.
Genetic evidence indicates that
humans were
predominantly polygynous for most of
their existence as a species, but that this
began to shift...
-
though verses discussing marriage generally have, of course,
relevance to
polygynous relationships.
Whilst traditional Islamic scholarship upholds the notion...
- years, and
rarely for life.
Other species have
breeding systems that are
polygynous (one male with many females) or, rarely,
polyandrous (one
female with...
- for
their attempted invasions of England. The
pagan English had been
polygynous. When the
English were evangelised,
although by
church law concubinage...
