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

Male mortality and social controls for parental certainty will be negatively associated with monogamy (p. 215).

These variables were excluded from a restricted model.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
multiple regression	Not Supported	Not Significant	b = .043 for male mortality	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Male Mortality	Independent	Mortality
Monogamy	Dependent	Polygamy
Parental Certainty	Independent	Premarital Sex Relations, Extramarital Sex Relations

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Gray, J. Patrick	1981	There will be a positive association between male parental certainty and more settled forms of subsistence (278).	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Wolfe, Linda D.	1981	Male parental certainty will be positively associated with inheritance of movable property (95, 97).	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Marlowe, Frank W.	2001	Male contribution to subsistence will be negatively associated with infant mortality, juvenile mortality, and post-infant juvenile mortality (756-7).	Not Supported	4	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Dow, Malcolm M.	2013	Variability in male resource endowment will be negatively associated with monogamy (p. 213).	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Huber, Brad R.	2007	Direct and indirect care investments by biologically uncertain kin are positively associated with a society's paternity certainty level (p. 207).	Partially supported	4	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author