polygynous

This varies by species and the pattern is likely stronger in more polygynous species and weaker in more monogamous species.

Many Hakka claim that polygynous marriages were rare among the Hakka, yet until recently polygynous marriages were found among poor Hakka villagers in the New Territories of Hong Kong.

If monogamous and polygynous societies are more common than polyandrous and polycular societies, it's probably for a reason.

All human societies are mildly polygynous, with high-status males having more mates and low-status males having fewer.

First, that the evolution of increased human longevity was driven by increased late-life reproduction by men in polygynous primordial societies.

Monogamy somewhat limits this in our culture, but most people for most of the time humans have existed have been polygynous.

As it happens, most polygynous societies have much less polygyny than you'd think because the average man can't afford all four wives.

I believe the average man throughout history has been a monogynous man living in a polygynous society.

Older brothers in the highly polygynous soci- eties had greater opportunities than their younger brothers to accrue control of resources associated with marriage.

Many of the very hunter-gatherer tribes mentioned in the Vox video were themselves polygynous rather than egalitarian polyamorous societies, and frankly quite misogynistic.

Also a lot of these societies are polygynous with men having multiple wives.

This gets reflected in polygynous societies and the occasional episode of Sliders.

Sure, but assuming humans are just "naturally" polygynous doesn't explain the actual observed range of human behavior or the Y-chromasome bottleneck I just mentioned.

""The anthropological record indicates that approximately 85 per cent of human societies have permitted men to have more than one wife (polygynous marriage), and both empirical and evolutionary considerations suggest that large absolute differences in wealth should favour more polygynous marriages.

The existence of these Y chromosomal lineages, which have burst upon the genetic landscape like explosive stars sweeping aside all other variation before them, indicates a periodic it “winner-take-all” dynamic in human genetics more reminiscent of hyper-polygynous mammals such as elephant seals.