New research conducted in the United Kingdom found that multi-partner relationships are generally less desirable than singleness and monogamy. However, the study found that men are six times more ...

Ancient DNA reveals new details about the Avars, fearsome warriors who built an empire that ruled Central and Eastern Europe ...

Polygyny is the association of one male with multiple females. This mating system is found in a few birds and insects, but is most common in mammals. Polygyny is a strategy used by males to ...

Polygyny was uncommon among Virginia slaves but not completely unknown either. At least one African-born slave on a plantation belonging to Robert "King" Carter, a contemporary of Washington's ...

New DNA research is shedding light on the lifestyle of a warrior people called the Avars, a mysterious group who ruled much ...

Both male and female American woodcocks will have multiple clutches of eggs with multiple partners over the course of a ...

This international conference, hosted by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Project on Gender, Culture, Religion, and the Law and co-sponsored by the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project, explored a range of ...

But even in communities where polygyny is permitted, very few men actually take advantage of it! So we’re generally monogamous. We flirt, fall in love, and almost always marry just one person at ...

However, such multi-partner relationships are not new. Evidence suggests that low levels of polygyny have been part of the tapestry of human mating for a long time, recently suppressed in the West ...

Factors like cooler temperatures and polygyny (i.e., colonies with multiple queens) are important considerations, but can not explain the evolution of social parasitism in all cases. Bourke ...

“However, two cases of men with multiple older female partners, all middle-aged at death, makes a good argument for polygyny (having multiple wives). By contrast, most of the cases of women with ...