PSY 455 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Helen Fisher (Anthropologist), Incest Taboo, Mormonism And Polygamy
28 Nov 2016
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Many females and refers to a mating system in which men marry multiple women: polyandry. Many males and is defined as a system in which women pair with multiple men: monogamy. Which both monogyny and monandry and refers to a system in which two: polygynandry individuals pair-bond (cid:498)cenogamy(cid:499) which is defined as group marriage or a system in which husbands and wives share the same spouses, helen fisher. The primary marriage pattern for both men and women. Whereby men and women successive individual partners over their life span (as opposed to marrying one partner for the duration of their life spans or many partners at a spans or many partners at a single time) Is a long term mating arrangement that is socially sanctioned and that typically involve economic, social, and reproductive cooperation between the partners. Fewer than 50% of all adults in us are married.
