When one wife is enough: a cross-cultural study of the determinants of monogamy

Variability in male resource endowment will be negatively associated with monogamy (p. 213).

Male resource inequality was excluded from a restricted model.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
multiple regression	Not Supported	Not Significant	b = .041	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Male Resource Inequality	Independent	Accumulation Of Wealth, Classes
Monogamy	Dependent	Polygamy

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Dow, Malcolm M.	2013	Resource-poor environment will be positively associated with monogamy (p. 215)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Dow, Malcolm M.	2013	Male mortality and social controls for parental certainty will be negatively associated with monogamy (p. 215).	Not Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Gaulin, Steven JC	1992	Societies with EIM or Ecologically Imposed Monogamy (monogamy combined with egalitarian resource structure) will have lower sexual stature dimorphism than those practicing polygyny or Socially-Imposed Monogamy (SIM, monogamy in highly stratified societies). (471)	Partially supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Low, Bobbi S.	1979	Male and female ornamentation will be positively associated with socially-imposed monogamy (469, 485).	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Low, Bobbi S.	1979	Male and female ornamentation should be low in ecologically monogamous societies (469).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author