1995; Shuker et al., 2006). Explanations for female multiple mating with different partners (polyandry) have concentrated on either the potential genetic benefits that become available to females ...

including clandestinely in the United States. But where are the cultures in which one woman has many husbands? And what are they like? Take a look at the relatively rare practice of polyandry.

ANTHROPOLOGISTS have found that polyandry—the union of one woman and more than one man—is a rarity in humans. Across thousands of studied societies, just a few dozen polyandrous cultures exist ...

If you knew anything about evolutionary biology, you’d know that polyandry, the practice of taking more than one husband, is an evolutionary aberration in human social structures because all ...

New research shows the impact of polyandry on reproductive success in fire salamanders. Researchers at Bielefeld University and the Technische Universität Braunschweig are the first to confirm ...

Alice Dreger writing at The Atlantic: For generations, anthropologists have told their students a fairly simple story about polyandry—the socially recognized mating of one woman to two or more ...

Well, not so says Tom Pizzari, who is studying birds in more natural arrangements, and finding polyandry ... which really enables us to study a fairly natural population of birds, but using ...

Although polygyny is evident in our bodies and behavior, polyandry is also “us.” ironically, we are both polygynous and polyandrous. Part of human nature inclines us to male-oriented harems ...

Pre-historic Roman literature alludes that there were some Caesarean female kings who were fond of appropriating several men and turn them into their own ‘conjugal husbands’. In lieu of ...