Wikibooks: Relationships/Monogamy and Polygamy
NPOV quote Judging from the social habits of man as he now exists and from most savages being polygamists the most probable view is that primeval man aboriginally lived in small communities each with as many wives as he could support and obtain whom he would have jealously guarded against all other...
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| Summary: | NPOV quote Judging from the social habits of man as he now exists and from most savages being polygamists the most probable view is that primeval man aboriginally lived in small communities each with as many wives as he could support and obtain whom he would have jealously guarded against all other men. Darwin Charles. The Descent of Man (Prometheus 1871 {{ISBN 1573921769 http //www.literature.org/authors/darwin charles/the descent of man/). Charles Darwin The Descent of Man (1871) }} About 78% of human societies are polygynous in which some men marry more than one wife. Murdock George Peter. Ethnographic Atlas. Only 22% of societies are strictly monogamous. Almost no modern societies are polyandrous in which one woman marries several husbands (although such societies have existed historically in the Canary Islands the Himalayas the Canadian Arctic and possibly other places). Only 3% of mammal species in general are monogamous although at least 15% of primate species are. Insel T.R. Winslow J.T. Wang X. Young L.J. Oxytocin Vasopressin and the Neuroendocrine Basis of Pair Bond Formation in Vasopressin and Oxytocin Molecular Cellular and Clinical Advances (Plenum 1998 ISBN 0 306 45928 0 ) p. 217. quote In historical terms it is monogamy that is in need of explanation not polygamy. Bennion Janet. Women of Principle Female Networking in Contemporary Mormon Polygyny (Oxford Univ 1998 {{ISBN 0195120701 ). Janet Bennion Women of Principle (1998)}} = Women Egalitarian Sisterhood = Imagine a society in which the only wealth is cattle. A village has 1000 men 1000 women and 1000 cows. The Grand Rajah has 100 wives and 100 cows. The Lieutenant Rajah has three wives and three cows. Some men have one wife and one cow. Most men have no wife or cow. In this society every woman has one husband and one cow. All women are equal. Most men suffer in this society. In a polygynous society the median woman is better off than the median man. The wives of wealthy monogamous men may object to this statement—until their husbands divorce ... |
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