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
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
But it does not follow that polyandry and a matriarchal state always and necessarily preceded polygyny and a patriarchal state.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
