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True or False? The terms polyandry and polygyny can be used interchangeably because they mean the same thing

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polygyny means one man married to multiple wives, polygamy is “the practice or condition of having more than one spouse, esp. wife, at one time.”

The opposite of polygamy is monogamy. Poly is the Greek root for “many.” Mono is “one.”

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