What's the difference between polygynia and polygynous?
Polygynia
Definition:
(n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants having many styles.
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Polygynous
Definition:
(a.) Having many styles; belonging to the order Polygynia.
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(1) Of all the marriages recorded during this period about 5% were polygynous.
(2) This paper discusses polygynous marriages in rural Bangladesh, using marital status and birth registration data from the Demographic Surveillance System (DSS) of the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, for the period 1975-79.
(3) Everything else being equal, males of polygynous species are characterized by more variable canine sizes than males of monogamous species.
(4) = 1.72), the results reveal that male adolescents from monogamous families experience better psychological adjustment than their polygynous counterparts, whereas no such difference exists in the levels of psychological adjustment of female adolescents from both family types.
(5) Differentials in fertility levels between women in monogamous unions and those in polygynous ones are investigated using mean number of children ever born as the measure of fertility.
(6) An assessment of previous studies and of the results of a 1966-1967 study comparing the fertility levels of polygynously and monogamously married women in a rural and an urban population in Nigeria lead to the conclusion that the hypothesis was useless.
(7) The strength and quality of the relationship between heterosexual pairmates were compared in two species of New World monkeys, the polygynous squirrel monkey (Saimiri) and the monogamous titi monkey (Callicebus).
(8) However, when age-specific fertility rates were compared, except for women under 20 and over 40 years of age, rates were higher in monogamous unions (7.286 overall) than for women in polygynous households (7.200 overall).
(9) Sperm nuclear enlargement during phase D was significantly less in polyspermic and polygynic zygotes.
(10) Preliminary analysis revealed that the fertility rate was higher for polygynously married women; however, when marriage duration was controlled, there was no significant differences between the fertility rates observed for the polygynously and monogamously married women living in rural areas nor those living in urban area.
(11) The evidence relates to variation of sex ratios at birth with (1) time of insemination within the cycle of several species, (2) excision of accessory sex glands in rodents, (3) occupation of parents, (4) dominance rating of human mothers and (5) the ordinal rank of wives in polygynous marriages.
(12) During the period 1976-79, 863 polygynous marriages were recorded (4.9% of all marriages in the study area).
(13) The role of sexual selection has been questioned because mating system, which should reflect its strength, poorly predicts variation in canine dimorphism, particularly among polygynous species.
(14) 2 psychologists administered the Psychological Adjustment Scale of the Adolescent Personal Data Inventory to 116 Yoruba adolescents (69 males and 47 females) from middle class families attending a holiday youth camp in Ibadan in Oyo State, Nigeria to test the hypothesis that teenagers from monogamous families are better psychologically adjusted than those from polygynous families.
(15) Differences in mating success among the polygynous males were compared with male behavior and territory resources, and criteria were developed to test the importance of intrasexual male competition and female mate choice in explaining the mating system of the populations.
(16) These findings suggest that some changes in reproductive behavior are taking place in Nigeria that are restricting the fertility of women in polygynous unions.
(17) The more polygynous the society (the higher the potential reproductive rewards for males), the more sons in nonstratified societies were taught to strive.
(18) The "successively polygynous" males showed more sexual behavior than "monogamous" males, and their respective females solicited the males differently, as well.
(19) Here I show that in polygynous mammals where females commonly remain to breed in their natal group, their average age at first conception typically exceeds the average period of residence of adult males in breeding groups.
(20) Here we describe the use of a bird minisatellite DNA probe in assigning paternity in natural populations of the monogamous willow warbler Phylloscopus trochilus and of the polygynous wood warbler Phylloscopus sibilatrix.