Approximately, three-quarters (72%) were in
polygynous marriages.
A
polygynous marriage will always be a
polygynous marriage.
Because of colonialism, Christianity and western education; the vehicles for westernisation, traditional
polygynous marital practices tend to be despised as they are regarded as uncivilised, backwards and counter development.
Among the families above and among other interviewees, the connections of digital money sometimes exclude others such as half-siblings, the
polygynous father, cowives, spouses, and in-laws.
While Beaman's work falls under the wide purview of qualitative research, her paper on polygamy does not undertake primary research within Bountiful or any other
polygynous community (Beaman 2004).
If female coexistence occurs as documented in other
polygynous cervids, then males should display greater frequency and intensity of aggression than females.
While both monogamous and polyandrous marriages exist side by side (together with, to a lesser extent,
polygynous marriages) in agricultural areas of Tibet, it is clear from numerous studies that polyandrous marriage units are sought whenever possible.
Conversely, male space use generally increases with age, primarily during the breeding (summer) season due to
polygynous mating (Minta, 1993).
Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter Sage-Grouse) are a
polygynous galliform that inhabits the sagebrush steppe of western North America.
She identifies five types of reference to sexual habits by the Polo commentator, labeling them "The Nakedness Topos," "Feminine Promiscuity," "The Communal Woman, "The Cuckold Ideal," and "The
Polygynous Household" (125) and shows how each topos operates in her sources.
For
polygynous mammals, male dispersal is near-obligatory, whereas female dispersal patterns are nuanced, showing a mixed strategy of dispersal and philopatry (Johnson 1986).
Opie's methods were slightly better at handling the blurry lines between types of mating systems, Nunn says, whereas Lukas' team"reallywants to pin each species into one cubbyhole." For example, Opie's team classified the gray bamboo lemur, which has some variation in its mating habits, as both monogamous and
polygynous, while Lukas' team classified this species as not monogamous.