"Fathers and Sons: Kinship Value and Validation in Tibetan
Polyandry." Man 22, no.
To test if
polyandry results in increased color morph diversity among half-siblings in the wild, we used data for the 14 genotyped un-manipulated wild caught females and their captive reared offspring.
A longevity cost of re-mating but no benefits of
polyandry in the almond moth, Cadra cautella.
Polyandry in social Hymenoptera-disunity in diversity?
There's even an area in Asia where it's so hard for one man to provide for a household that they practise
polyandry. That's the opposite of a harem - wives are allowed more than one husband.
Mahmoud Ahmed Taha Mahmoud explains the rule of the law in the cases of adultery (by one of the spouses), the abandonment of the wife, polygamy - in the sense of
polyandry and polygyny, illicit cohabitation (adultery), stealing by one spouse from the other.
Polyandry is out of the question for similar reasons.
But with the surplus of males, I'm curious if there's going to be some informal type of
polyandry where two brothers share a wife.