Explaining monogamy and polygyny among foragers and horticulturalists

A low male to female sex ratio will be positively associated with polygyny (6).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Pearson’s product-moment correlation	Not Supported	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Male Sex Ratio	Independent	Composition Of Population
Polygyny	Dependent	Polygamy

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Ember, Melvin	1974	"A high male mortality in warfare is strongly associated with polygyny" (202)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Melvin	1974	"[Societies] with a high male loss in warfare are significantly more likely to have an imbalanced sex ratio in favor of females than . . . [societies] with a low or zero male loss in warfare" (201-202)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Melvin	1974	"In the presence of a short [postpartum sex] taboo, which is the more crucial control situation, . . . [there is a strong] correlation between high male mortality and polygyny" (202)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Melvin	1974	"However, when we control on Whiting's predictor, i.e., presence or absence of a long postpartum sex taboo, a strong relationship between high male mortality and polygyny still obtains, in the presence of both a long and a short postpartum sex taboo" (202)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Melvin	1974	". . . polygynous . . . [societies] are significantly more likely to have an imbalanced sex ratio in favor of females than the nonpolygynous [societies]" (199)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author