Polyandry (/ˈpɒliˌændri, ˌpɒliˈæn-/; from Ancient Greek πολύ (polú) 'many', and ἀνήρ (anḗr) 'man') is a form of polygamy in which a woman takes two or...

Polyandry in India refers to the practice of polyandry, whereby a woman has two or more husbands at the same time, either historically on the Indian subcontinent...

behavioral ecology, polyandry is a class of mating system where one female mates with several males in a breeding season. Polyandry is often compared to...

Polyandry is a marital arrangement in which a woman has several husbands. In Tibet, those husbands are often brothers; "fraternal polyandry". Concern...

Polyandry in fishes is a mating system where females mate with multiple males within one mating season. This type of mating exists in a variety of animal...

woman is married to more than one husband at the same time, it is called polyandry. In sociobiology and zoology, researchers use polygamy in a broad sense...

(one man having more than one wife) and not polyandry (one woman having more than one husband), as polyandry is specifically outlawed by the Hebrew Bible's...

of the world, arranged marriage, forced marriage, polygamy marriage, polyandry marriage, polygyny marriage, group marriage, coverture marriage, child...

either formal or informal polyandry. The researchers found 53 communities studied between 1912 and 2010 that practiced polyandry (in which women have multiple...

for females. Polyandry decreases the SR gene frequency because the non-SR male sperm outcompete the SR male sperm. Therefore, polyandry results in a decreased...

used to practice polyandry. Toda people, who live on the isolated Nilgiri plateau of Southern India practiced adelphic polyandry for centuries, but...

insemination increases the frequency of polyandrous events and fertilizations. Polyandry has evolved to increase reproductive success. Male mating behavior is...

multiple spouses. Polygyny is a marriage between a man and multiple wives. Polyandry is a marriage between a woman and multiple husbands. A common expectation...

mating or reproductively motivated systems include monogamy, polygyny, polyandry, polygamy and promiscuity. Other sexual behaviour may be reproductively...

men." Polyandry was not regarded without censure by the society spoken of in the epic. The Vedic texts have not discriminated between polyandry and polygamy...

relationships are permitted, although divorce is a relatively simple process. Polyandry (a woman having multiple husbands) occurs very rarely in a few isolated...

types of polyandry exist: simultaneous polyandry and sequential polyandry. An even rarer subtype called cooperative simultaneous polyandry also exists...

which two males jointly defend a territory containing several females. Polyandry, though, is the most common mating system of dunnocks found in nature...

from mating with another male for a certain period of time. Although polyandry benefits females of P. napi by maximizing the amount of transferred nutrients...

Tibetan polyandry accomplishes the same goal of the European stem family system, but in a very different way. Researchers have suggested that polyandry developed...

every Hindu in India was theoretically allowed to have multiple wives. Polyandry refers to a marriage where a woman is married to more than one man during...

that there is no evidence of polyandry in that area at all. She argues that all European travelogues describing polyandry came from the region of Central...

beetles is a behavior common to both males and females of this species. Polyandry is thus polygamy in the female members of a population as discussed in...

Drosophila pseudoobscura, Drosophila melanogaster, and Drosophila neotestacea. Polyandry is a prominent mating system among Drosophila. Females mating with multiple...

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research has showed that some strains of C. chinensis exhibit polyandry. In the study, the polyandry strain is derived from the field, while the monandry strain...

taboo Endogamy Exogamy Moiety Monogamy Polygyny Polygamy Concubinage Polyandry Bride price Bride service Dowry Parallel / cross cousins Cousin marriage...

Sororal polygyny, a marriage of two or more sisters and a man. Fraternal polyandry, a marriage of two or more brothers and one woman Genealogy of Jesus,...

Dowry system Family planning Joint family Infertility Nuclear family Polyandry Polygyny Children Abortion Child labour Child marriage Child prostitution...

from the eggs in about two weeks. Gryllus bimaculatus exhibit polygamy. Polyandry is the most common form of polygamy practiced in G. bimaculatus. This...