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Are most human societies now monogamous or polygamous?
Are most human societies now monogamous or polygamous?
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Monogamous
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Monogamous
Encyclopedia Britannica
polygamy (animal behaviour) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
Only a handful of mammal species, including most human societies, are socially monogamous.
mammal -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
Only a handful of mammal species, including most human societies, are socially monogamous.
fluther.com
How did monogamy come to be the most prevalent legal model ...
At some point, perhaps in the last five hundred years, it became the dominant model.
Polygamous
Wikipedia
Value of monogamy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anthropological data suggests a majority of societies prefer polygamous marriage as a cultural ideal.
yourblackworld.com
What’s It Like to be Raised by Your Father’s Mistress?
This is the specific reason why monogamy is a foreign concept that should not be practiced...If you can afford to maintain two homes and have these women taken care of, I see no problem in polygamy being practiced...We are following a foreign custom brought to us by a bunch or barbarians who don't practice what they preach...Look around the globe and you will see that in majority of societies some form of polygamy is practiced...But we will listened to these puritanical people who have all these women, outside children they ignore and don't claim, tell us to it's wrong to have more than one wife...
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Monogamy
Anthropological data suggests a majority of societies prefer polygamous marriage as a cultural ideal.
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The majority of societies are polygamous.
dictionary.sensagent.com
monogamy : definition of monogamy and synonym of monogamy (English)
Anthropological data suggests a majority of societies prefer polygamous marriage as a cultural ideal.