Show threadF3715HFeb 11
@alice_schroedinger @sleepybisexual it's usually just #Polygyny (multiple women towards one.man, not the other way around!)…
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDDec 23
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1805, #JosephSmith was born in VT. Founder of the #LatterDaySaints movement & #LDS Church, Smith is a controversial figure, known for dictatorial politics & #polygyny. Distinctive #Mormon cosmology & theology make it a curious splinter from #Christianity.
Abel BernadouApr 16, 2024

New paper published in Insectes Sociaux 🐜

We analysed the factors associated with the determinism of social polymorphism in the trap jaw ant O. hastatus.

Read the study here: https://rdcu.be/dyPQd

#recognition #polygyny #queens #ants

Many thanks to all collaborators! The field work in FG was just great 🤩😍🐜

This research was supported by #CNRS, #AgenciaFAPESP,
#CNRS_Nouragues and #AgenceRecherche

#UnivToulouse #UT3PaulSabatier #CbiToulouse #CNRS_Toulouse

Photo: Philipp Hoenle

Colony structure, ecological correlates and nestmate recognition in the ant Odontomachus hastatus: a comparative study between populations with different social organisations

Kris InwoodJul 2, 2023
Sijie Hu confirms marital fertility was moderate in Qing China 1620-1900. No clear evidence of early stopping or longer spacing implying an absence of conscious fertility control. Still, cultural practices eg polygyny lowered marital fertility. Based on new data for 7767 women in 5 lineages. Open access in Asia-Pacific Econ His Rev @apehr
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12269
@demography @econhist @sociology @politicalscience @anthropology @geography #history #histodons #China #Qing #fertility #polygyny
Alex WildJun 17, 2023

Often, ant colonies will have more than one queen.

Sometimes, colonies will have dozens, or even hundreds. This is a nest of little fire ants, Wasmannia auropunctata, in Puerto Rico.

The queens are obvious, but do you see the much smaller worker ants?

#ants #insects #wasmannia #polygyny #queenant

Show thread♾️ Yuki (스노 雪亮) 🐬 🧮🗝️Jun 4, 2023
@lorddimwit

I don't know… the lack of a law does not mean something is “illegal”. For there to be a divorce process, there has to be a law. And for something to be “illegal” there should be a law about it as well.

If I am not mistaken, it was this lack of law making divorce “legal” or “illegal” is how the Family Code of the Philippines found a way to recognise divorce for those who were married under Islamic rites. So, for Muslims in the Philippines, they can have a State recognised divorce.

There are also “foreign divorce” setups that was/is recognised by the Philippines. Which kind of demonstrate that divorce is not “illegal” just because there is a lack of law around it.

I want my country to recognise religious divorce, just the way they recognise Islamic divorce. There is no logic why only Islamic divorce is recognised. Then from there, they can add legal divorce.

There are only two ways I see it: they're afraid of Muslims, or double standards.

Did you know that the State of the Philippines also legally recognises #polygyny (man with more than one wife; but not the other way around), as long as they were married under Islamic rites?

But they won't recognise polygyny in other religions… why?

It brings us back to: (a) they are afraid of Muslims or something; or, (b) double standards.

Anyway… I guess those were off-topic.

@brewsterkahle
Christophe BousquetMay 31, 2023

#Reproductive #inequality in #humans and other #mammals

#OpenAccess

"Data from 90 human societies & 49 mammalian species. Humans exhibit lower average sex differences in reproductive inequality than do most other mammals, while falling within the mammalian range. These small sex differences in #ReproductiveSkew are due to institutions supporting #monogamy, to a limited intensity of #polygyny and especially to heavy dependence of children on #care from both parents"

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2220124120

Geo ProxusDec 1, 2022
1 man + 1 woman = marriage ✅
1 man + 2 or more women = marriage ✅✅
#man #woman #men #women #marriage #polygyny #patriarchy
LotneuvNov 20, 2022
One thing I've wondering for a long time but haven't been able to find an answer with my duckduckgoing skills: is newborn gender distribution even also in polygynys species? Male gorillas have harems but do male and female gorillas born in equal numbers? What about chickens?
#biology #harem #polygyny #genderdistribution