polygyny vs polygamy
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noun
- polygamy in which a man has more than one wife at a time
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Thus the expectations regarding the strength of sexual selection for polygyny, polyandry, and monogamy are fairly simple.
In the absence of inbreeding, the most extreme value of coancestry is achieved by male polygyny together with female philopatry.
Although Muslim law allows polygyny, economic realities mean most Brahui marriages are monogamous.
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noun
- the condition or practice of having more than one spouse at a time
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There is already a great deal of precedent since polygamy has been widely practiced throughout history.
The debut in spring 2006 of HBO's television series, Big Love, which featured a fictional and in some ways likeable polygamous family in Utah, propelled polygamy to the front pages of American newspapers and put the idea of legalized polygamy "in play" in some surprising quarters.
Debut novelists will make up nearly half of the Orange prize for fiction longlist, which this year tackles strikingly difficult subjects: incest, sadistic cruelty, polygamy, child bereavement, hermaphroditism and mental illness.
