South Africa’s government is considering allowing women to have multiple husbands, a possibility that has thrown the country’s conservatives into uproar. The proposal to allow polyandry was included ...

The evolution of female multiple mating is a puzzle in species in which males provide little or no resources apart from sperm (Ridley, 1988; Andersson, 1994). In many cases female fertility is ...

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 human ...

Polyandry, a tabooed practice which allows a woman to have two or more husbands at the same time, has been outlawed in almost every part of the world, including in India. However, the practice is ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract To resolve conflicting field observations regarding the action of sexual selection, we used breeding experiments and paternity analysis of the ...

South Africa’s government is considering allowing women to have multiple husbands, a possibility that has thrown the country’s conservatives into uproar. The proposal to allow polyandry was included ...

In May, a proposal for polyandry to be legally recognised as a form of marriage sparked a major debate. The department of home affairs gazetted a new green paper for the Marriage Act. One of the ...

Researchers at Bielefeld University and the Technische Universität Braunschweig are the first to confirm the benefit of multiple paternities for a vertebrate under completely natural conditions.

South African conservatives are firing back at gender-equality advocates who say the cultural practice of keeping multiple spouses should be extended to women. A proposal to legalize polyandry — in ...