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A mating system. A female has several male mates in this breeding system. Females have greater reproductive variance than males'. Polyandry is uncommon. No primate species is purely polyandrous. Some mating relationships in tamarins are polyandrous but most are monogamous. Mates provide extensive paternal care in polyandrous relationships.
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These are anthropological terms, not much used within the poly movement. They refer respectively to multiple marriages in general, marriages of multiple women to one man, and of multiple men to one woman. Polygyny has been much more common among world cultures than polyandry, and many non-anthropologists have used polygamy to refer mainly to polygyny, for example among the Mormons. These have mainly referred to marriages recognized by the culture in question. ...
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Marriage of one female with more than one male. Few societies have this marriage arrangement - less than 1% of known societies.
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