polygyny
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Adult relationships vary in form across societies and include not only the type most common around the world today — heterosexual monogamy — but also same-sex marriage, nonmarital unions, polyamory, polygyny and polyandry.
From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2022
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 polygyny is bad for women is not necessarily intuitive.
From Slate • Jan. 30, 2012
Strict monogamy seems to prevail even where, as among the Aeta, polygyny is not prohibited.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
