United Kingdom: London — According to a Department of Health study, monogamists who are married to more than one spouse at a time have a significantly greater chance of becoming polygamists than those who remain married to only one person.
"The main factor in this is seems to be simultaneity," said David Niven, a Socio-Anthropologist who authored the DH report. "Those who have one spouse, divorce that spouse, and then take another, tend to remain monogamous.
However, those who retain one spouse and decide to marry again to have, in effect, two or more spouses have a much greater chance of becoming polygamists."
Niven said, he could not explain his findings, which were based on nearly 3,000 hours of research with a dictionary, although he theorized it could be related to diet, exercise, or perhaps even climate.
