Open AccessThe polyandry revolution
Author(s) -
Tommaso Pizzari,
Nina Wedell
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
philosophical transactions of the royal society b biological sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.753
H-Index - 272
eISSN - 1471-2970
pISSN - 0962-8436
DOI - 10.1098/rstb.2012.0041
Subject(s) - biology , evolutionary biology , ecology
The term polyandry defines mating systems in which individual females mate with multiple males. Naturalists had long been aware that some species are overtly polyandrous. Aristotle [[1][1]] described how domestic hens often mate with multiple males. Darwin was clearly aware that in few species
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