“Most offspring were from monogamous pairs, but a few cases consistent with polygyny by males or sequential polyandry by females were also found.”

“In the rare mating system called polyandry, the female breeds with several males, which then raise the offspring alone.”

“The polyandry of female Uta may be a strategy to obtain genes to produce both high quality sons and daughters.”

“Then this so sweet maid is a polyandrist, and me, with my poor wife dead to me, but alive by Church's law, though no wits, all gone, even I, who am faithful husband to this now-no-wife, am bigamist.”

“Safire estimates we now have about 30,000 polygamists and 200 polyandrists.”