The Catholic views of marriage ... Polygamy (many marriages) or, more correctly, polygyny (many wives) has been, and is still much more common than polyandry. It existed among most of the ancient peoples known to history, and occurs at present in some civilized nations as in the majority of savage tribes.
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Trivia about the alternative form of marriage known as polyandry, history of the practice and people who have them. ... The Practice: It is not because of the sexuality of women that polyandry--the marriage of one woman to more than one man--is rare, for it makes ultimate sexual good sense, given the claims of sex...
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HOME > TIBETAN DEMOGRAPHY, MARRIAGE, AND POLYANDRY ... Polyandry And Population Growth in a Historical Tibetan Society; [The History of the Family Vol. 8: 423-444, 2003.] ... Tibetan History...
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However, the history of polyandry as practiced, and the relationship limitations imposed under a system of male-initiated polyandry, weigh more heavily on the other side of the balance. Polyandry would not be a more feminist version of polygamy;
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Schuler, 1987 S.R. Schuler, The other side of polyandry, Westview, Boulder, CO (1987). Shakabpa, 1984 T.W. Shakabpa, Tibet: A political history, Potala, ...
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A definition of polyandry, from About.com Women's History. ... In Tibet, polyandry was accepted. Brothers would marry one woman, and the children of the marriage would inherit the land. The term for polyandry where the husbands are brothers to each other is fraternal polyandry. ... Explore Women's History...
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In Tibet, polyandry (marriage of one woman to more than one husband) was accepted. Brothers would marry one woman, and the children of the marriage would inherit the land. The term for polyandry where the husbands are brothers to each other is fraternal polyandry. ... History of Marriage...
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Another distinct type of polyandry is practiced in areas of ... Polyandry has been practiced by many peoples in all parts of the world since ancient times. At present, however, polyandry is prohibited by law in most countries. ... Two principal forms of polyandry exist today. Among the Nair people, who inhabit the...
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While the theory's physiological predictions are well supported by observation, the requirement of polyandry in the evolution of imprinting from an ancestral Mendelian state has not been comprehensively analyzed.
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We also show that, for all levels of polyandry, Mendelian alleles at genetic loci that influence the trade-off between maternal fecundity and offspring viability reach an evolutionary stable state, whereas pairs of reciprocally imprinted alleles do not.
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