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• Thus the expectations regarding the strength of sexual selection for polygyny, polyandry, and monogamy are fairly simple.
• The book clearly states that the "lamasery" of Shangri-La was in Tibet, that the native people were Tibetans, spoke the Tibetan language, practiced Tibetan Buddhism and polyandry, wore sheepskin robes and yak leather boots and believed that they were "descended from monkeys". Phayul Latest News
• Cichlids also employ polyandry, in which females mate with several males.
• And in any case, polyandry is certainly not the ideal for Indian womanhood.
• Polyandry gives women certain privileges which monandry denies, and she is not slow to seize on these prerogatives, and to use them in the furtherance of her own welfare. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire
• During the past fifty years, these people have made rapid strides toward civilization, monandry and monogamy taking the places of polyandry and polygamy, and fifty or a hundred years hence, this matriarchate will, in all probability, entirely disappear. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire
• That is, some researchers have assumed that the prevalence of patrilocality and polygyny in relation to matrilocality and polyandry, combined with the structural fact that the X is disproportionately carried in females, can explain the differences in patterns of genetic variation. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
• For man is by nature a monogamous and monandrous being; polygamy and polyandry are inconsistent with the fundamental characteristics of his nature; they are diseases of civilisation which would vanish spontaneously with a return to the healthy conditions of existence. Freeland A Social Anticipation
• Polygyny and polyandry are not allowed, and it is forbidden to marry close family and kin members.
• Polyandry in lekking species may also occur if assessment criteria are subject to error, and in less well-understood situations.