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POLYANDRY. The state of a woman who has several husbands.
2. Polyandry is legalized only in Tibet. This is inconsistent with the law of nature. Vide Law of Nature.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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Polyandrous Due to shortage of [26] relationships brides, a female is married to number of males leading to polyandry.

Mapping causes and implications of India's skewed sex ratio and poverty problem using fuzzy & neutrosophic relational maps

Evidence suggests that polyandrous marriages are most stable in situations where the brothers have distinct contributions to the household's success.

The ethics (and economics) of Tibetan polyandry

For Gunnison's and white-tailed prairie dogs, however, polyandrous females were less likely than monandrous females to survive until the next mating season.

Multiple mates increase reproductive success for female prairie dogs

(257.) In a polyandrous relationship, of course, the hub spouse would be a woman.

Taxing polygamy

subulata females to four males each, in sequence, and then genotyped the resulting offspring using microsatellites to test whether polyandrous females produce offspring that are half-siblings sired by different males.

Multiple paternity increases phenotypic diversity in Tetrix subulata pygmy grasshoppers

Yet, Bombax ceiba flowers conserved the ancestral condition which is represented by synapomorphies characters such as large flower with fleshy cup-shaped calyx, polyandrous stamens with unilocular anthers that possess stakled filaments forming five bundles united at base with calyx & corolla and produce tremendous amount of pollen which favors pollination via mammals like bats [20].

Comparative study of three species of Malvatheca (Bombacoideae and Malvoideae (Malvaceae sensu lato) using morphological, anatomical and RAPD-PCR analyses

Because we were unsure whether these detection ratios would be similar to values that would have been generated using the adjusted total metric, we did not adjust counts of the polygamous (polygynous and polyandrous) species and assumed perfect detection (detection rate = 1.0).

Shorebirds breed in unusually high densities in the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area, Alaska

Finally, pointing out that there are good reasons for not recognising incestuous, polyandrous or polygamous unions, actually proves, rather than rebuts, our argument.

Critiquing the case for same-sex marriage: equality and non-discrimination: According to the General policy statement of the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill ("the Bill"), the justification for affirming same-sex marriage as a human right is the notion of equality and non-discrimination

These birds are territorial, and live in pairs or polyandrous harems (Sick, 1997; Emlen and Wrege, 2004a; Sigrist, 2006).

Prey-capture efficiency between juveniles and adults, feeding habitat and abundance of Wattled Jacana foragers in northern Pantanal, Mato Grosso state, Brazil/Eficiencia de captura de presas entre jovens e adultos habitat de alimentacao e abundancia de Jacanas forrageadores no Pantanal norte, Mato Grosso, Brasil

The title of this study is a nod to the distinguished ethnologist Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009) who demonstrated that multiple family structures (monogamous, polyandrous or polygynous; patrilineal, matrilineal or bilateral, extended or restricted) all serve the same social functions to varying degrees.

Elementary kinship structures in parliament since 1867

Serfes (2002) Equilibrium and Inefficiency Properties of Interlinkage under Polyandrous Tenancy.

Interlinked factor markets and allocative efficiency: evidence from Rural West Bengal, India

JAUNsAR-BAWAR VALLEY in north india is INFAMOUS FOR ITS POLYGAMOUS AND POLYANDROUS UNIONS BUT for ITS RESIDENTS, LIFE GOES ON