The question of why females mate with multiple males has long puzzled evolutionary biologists. A new study of African ...

If you knew anything about evolutionary biology, you’d know that polyandry, the practice of taking more than one husband, is an evolutionary aberration in human social structures because all human ...

A recent wedding in Himachal Pradesh's Shillai village has brought the ancient tradition of polyandry back into public discourse. The ceremony, where Sunita Chauhan married two brothersâ Pradeep and ...

Actress and author Ayanda Borotho has offered her opinion on the heated topic of polyandry, saying she'd like the black community and particularly women in SA not to get duped into focusing on such ...

Polyandry, a tabooed practice which allows a woman to have two or more husbands at the same time, has been outlawed in almost every part of the world, including in India. However, the practice is ...

Dr Lize Mills is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Stellenbosch University. Professor Amanda Gouws is the SARChI Chair in Gender Politics at Stellenbosch University. In South Africa there are ...

In May, a proposal for polyandry to be legally recognised as a form of marriage sparked a major debate. The department of home affairs gazetted a new green paper for the Marriage Act. One of the ...

South African conservatives are firing back at gender-equality advocates who say the cultural practice of keeping multiple spouses should be extended to women. A proposal to legalize polyandry — in ...