… compares various explanations of nonsororal polygyny, by far the most common type of
polygyny… (ie, more than occasional) nonsororal polygyny are high male mortality in war (resulting …

… The second was a desire to compare similar countries. Otherwise, the contrasts pit … In
summary, the findings offer clear support to most leading functional explanations of polygyny …

… Explanations differ but the persistent aggression directed at adolescent males by … polygynous
species, and the potentially higher benefits of dispersal to polygynous males compared …

… characteristics correlate with polygyny. For example, polygynous species tend to have more
closely related colonies (Keller 1995), which was also true in our sample (comparing mono- …

… the "sex-ratio" explanation of polygyny compares with some alternative, supposedly causal
explanations. The results suggest that more than occasional incidence of polygyny is best …

… We discuss and test competing explanations for polygyny based on household economics,
… We tested this hypothesis by comparing the variance accounted for solely by the social …

… of polygyny in Christian societies that had neighboring Moslem societies living under entirely
similar economic and ecological conditions and practicing (at least occasionally) polygyny (…

… Our proposed explanation of the decline of polygyny thus runs differently than Murdock’s; …
Thus, the marital assignment algorithm is defined so that each woman compares her expected …

… that compared two general explanations of polygyny. One is the recent suggestion that polygyny
… The other explanation, a very old one that has generally been ignored, is the notion that …

… polygyny. Here, I point out that there is no true way to organise the models, and that the
organisation itself may influence which explanation … of polygyny in which we want to compare the …