polygynous

• “Aquinas goes on to describe how monogamy benefits women by reducing the female competition inherent in polygynous households, thereby insuring the concentration of emotional and material resources on a single female mate.”

  The Huffington Post: Matt J. Rossano: Thomas Aquinas: Saint of Evolutionary Psychologist?

• “They are polygynous, meaning each male has up to ten mates in his territory.”

  BellaOnline - The Voice of Women

• “Gorillas are polygynous in order to capitalize on the approach-avoidance conflict of needing a giant protector who looks scarier than hell but then wondering what to do with him when there is no danger.”

  The Huffington Post: Dan Wharton, Ph.D.: Are We Really That Different In Love?

• “My research over the past decade, encompassing more than 170 countries, has shown the detrimental effects of polygynous practices on human rights, for both men and women.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Polygamy: More Common Than You Think

• “According to the information I have helped to collect in the Womanstats database, women in polygynous communities get married younger, have more children, have higher rates of HIV infection than men, sustain more domestic violence, succumb to more female genital mutilation and sex trafficking, and are more likely to die in childbirth.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Polygamy: More Common Than You Think

• “Human males are "moderately polygynous," on the other hand, and initiate most of the changes in sexual partnership.”

  The Huffington Post: Mark Matousek: Why Men and Women Make Different Ethical Choices

• “What could possibly compel one to watch TLC's The Sister Wives, knowing that it is not an HBO creation, but a real-life depiction of a polygynous family?”

  The Huffington Post: Her Campus: What College Women Can Learn From the Sister Wives

• “That is, * mitala was adopted into Swahili with the meaning "polygynous marriage" during the second millennium CE.”

  Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE

• “This incorporation suggests Swahili speakers may have picked up from Ruvu the identification of a polygynous marriage that stood in contrast to Swahili mtaa and/or that Ruvu themselves who became Swahili speakers maintained the word because it was sociopolitically significant.”

  Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE

• “In the case of polygynous households, each wife likely had her own * migunda.”

  Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE

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