A new study co-authored by SFI External Professor Laura Fortunato (University of Oxford), challenges a long-standing claim ...

Polygyny is the basic rule; however, the ruling of polygyny differs according to the circumstances and conditions of every man. Restricting polygyny to cases where the first wife is sick or old is ...

Much of the public discourse about the recent revelation that Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered a child with another woman while married to Maria Shriver and raising a family with her has centered on ...

Polygyny is a practice where one husband has more wives than one. A new study has suggested that polygyny may not be as bad as it is often made out to be. Researchers found that the practice of ...

What one thing could prevent depravity and fornication in Russia? Well according to one legal advisor in Islamic law - or mufti - in Moscow, Ildar Alyautdinov, the answer is polygyny (where the ...

Much of the world frowns on the practice of polygamy. Most countries around the globe ban or restrict marriages to more than one spouse at a time. And polygyny--where one husband has more than one ...

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. We ask Allaah to exalt his mention ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The results of a study of polygyny in a marked population of Hen Harriers in Orkney are presented. Data on 37-62 nests were collected annually ...

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 27, No. 5 (1990), pp. 307-313 (7 pages) In species with male parental care, polygyny may reduce the parental effort provided by a male, and hence impose a ...