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- adverb In a
polygynous manner.
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Examples
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In fact, follow-up analyses among Ariaal men aged 40 and older revealed lower testosterone levels among polygynously married men compared with monogamously married men.
October 9th, 2007 2007
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However, contrary to expectations, married men with more than one wife (polygynously married men) had even lower levels of testosterone that the monogamously married men.
October 9th, 2007 2007
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[However], contrary to earlier findings ... polygynously married men did not show higher testosterone levels.
October 9th, 2007 2007
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Betzig points out that while powerful men throughout Western history have married monogamously (only one legal wife at a time), they have always mated polygynously (they had lovers, concubines, and female slaves).
Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature | Impact Lab 2007
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This pattern would repeat itself many times over the next several years, as nearly a dozen of the at least thirty-three women he web polygynously were already married.
Yet another memoir excerptI call this one "Prophet Sharing" shunn 2001
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This pattern would repeat itself many times over the next several years, as nearly a dozen of the at least thirty-three women he web polygynously were already married.
Yet another memoir excerptI call this one "Prophet Sharing" shunn 2001
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