But polyandrous families seldom had more than six or seven children.

而一妻多夫制家庭的孩子一般在六七个以内。

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Not one of Ms. Devi’s five children lives in a polyandrous family.

现在德薇的5个孩子中，没有一个生活在一妻多夫的家庭。

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The reason for this was that the polyandrous females suffered a far lower rate of spontaneous abortion, which occurs when genetic incompatibility between the maternal and paternal genomes results in an immunological conflict between mother and embryo.

ECONOMIST: Polyandry

Jeanne Zeh and her colleagues, who published their results in the current edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, have shown that in a type of arthropod known as a pseudoscorpion, polyandrous females do, indeed, produce more offspring as a direct result of their promiscuity.

ECONOMIST: Polyandry