How To Use Polygynous In A Sentence
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They are polygynous, meaning each male has up to ten mates in his territory.
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Like all equids, mountain zebras are polygynous.
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Grasslands and prairies support a number of polygynous species as well, including meadowlarks, bobolinks, dickcissels, lark buntings, and great-tailed grackles.
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Among the indigenous majority, marriage is ideally polygynous and patrilocal, with the bride moving to her husband's compound to live with his extended family.
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Like all equids, mountain zebras are polygynous.
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The sexes form different kinds of association for breeding in different species; some are monogamous, others polygynous, others polyandrous.
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Sociobiologists would say marriage pattern - whether a society allows polygynous and monogamous marriage, or only monogamy.
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Polygynous marriages were not prohibited by colonial law.
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Although there are polygynous marriages in some Oriente ethnic groups, monogamy is the norm.
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We studied sexual selection in the red bishop, a sexually dimorphic and polygynous weaverbird from Southern Africa.
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Polygynous marriages (multiple wives) were permitted where the husband had the means to pay the lobolo (bride wealth) for each, and to maintain them properly.
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The dominant residence pattern is virilocal, and marriages are frequently polygynous.
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In the north, patrilocal forms were complicated by a high incidence of polygynous marriage.
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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.
Matt J. Rossano: Thomas Aquinas: Saint of Evolutionary Psychologist?
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Missionaries in particular (without, apparently, noticing the irony) mapped indigenous women in terms of their subjugation to polygynous marriage and lovolo (bridewealth), their "immoral" fondness for communal drinking and nocturnal "orgies," and their stubborn insistence on diagnosing illness and misfortune as symptoms of witchcraft.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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Traditionally, powerful leading men might marry polygynously, although after missionization, monogamy became the norm.
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When social mating systems were dichotomized, extrapair chicks were twice as frequent in monogamous as in polygynous species.
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The dispersal of the juveniles differs from that of most other promiscuous or polygynous mammals, being female-biased with a fraction of males remaining philopatric.
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Males do not go on to construct further nests as polygynous weavers of more productive lands do.
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Males do not go on to construct further nests as polygynous weavers of more productive lands do.
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The pied flycatcher is a small, hole-nesting, insectivorous passerine bird which usually is monogamous, but in which some 5-10% of the males may be polygynous.
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Unlike many socially polygynous species, house wrens are sexually monomorphic; both sexes are a fairly uniform brownish gray.
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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.
Dan Wharton, Ph.D.: Are We Really That Different In Love?
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I suspect that few American women, for instance, would be that inclined to enter into polygynous (one man, many women) marriages.
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For example, among polygynous mammals, and thus among most primates, mothers in the best physical condition were originally expected to overproduce males.
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They also suggest that individuals are mildly polygynous, having evolved in a system in which one man maintains a harem.
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It follows that parents who leave wealth to sons in polygynous societies will have, on average, more grandchildren than would parents who left wealth equally to daughters and sons.
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However, different investigators have used the term ‘monogamy’ to describe both concepts, whereas in reality they are not synonymous: social monogamy can occur with monogamous, polygynous, and polyandrous mating strategies.
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Gorilla groups are generally polygynous, consisting of one silverback male, his harem of several adult females, their young, and one or more subordinate males.
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Similar to its congeners, this sexually dimorphic species is hypothesized to be resource-defense polygynous.
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Grasslands and prairies support a number of polygynous species as well, including meadowlarks, bobolinks, dickcissels, lark buntings, and great-tailed grackles.
