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Avian Polyandry

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Polyandry literally means many males. As a mating system, it implies that individual females have two or more mates, while males have only one. Polyandry has been considered one of three general types of mating system (the others being monogamy and polygyny), since the time of Darwin (1871). At that time what Darwin considered polyandrous associations were described for man, fish, and lepidoptera.

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