Educational assortative mating in Italy: what can Gini’s homogamy index still say? [PDF]
, 2015 The homogamy index proposed by Gini is applied to describe the changes occurred in marital choice - across time and regions in Italy. The relevant increase in education by women has provoked an increase in the number of homogamous couples and in an ...
DE ROSE, Alessandra, Fraboni, R.
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Assortative Mating for Emotional Intelligence [PDF]
Current Psychology, 2016 Assortative mating has been studied on a broad range of variables, including intelligence and personality traits. In the present study we analysed the effect of assortative mating for ability emotional intelligence (EI) on a sample of heterosexual couples (N = 382), including dating and married couples. Correlation analyses revealed moderate similarity
Śmieja-Nęcka, Magdalena +1 more
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Journal of Family Research, 2010 This paper analyzes the determinants of assortative mating by ethnicity and education for individuals with an immigrant background in Sweden, focusing on the role of individual, marriage market and parental characteristics.
Aycan Çelikaksoy +2 more
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Genetic gain and inbreeding from simulation of different genomic mating schemes for pig improvement
Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology, 2023 Background Genomic selection involves choosing as parents those elite individuals with the higher genomic estimated breeding values (GEBV) to accelerate the speed of genetic improvement in domestic animals.
Fuping Zhao +6 more
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Correction: assortative mating in fallow deer reduces the strength of sexual selection. [PDF]
, 2011 PMCID: PMC3182158 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited ...
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Sampling scale can cause bias in positive assortative mating estimates: The first evidence in two intertidal snails [PDF]
, 2016 Assortative mating in the wild is commonly estimated by correlating between traits in mating pairs (e.g. size of males and females). Unfortunately such an approach may suffer from considerable sampling bias when the distribution of different expressions ...
Davies, M.S. +4 more
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Frequency-dependent and correlational selection pressures have conflicting consequences for assortative mating in a color-polymorphic lizard, Uta stansburiana [PDF]
, 2014 Acknowledgments We would like to thank the numerous undergraduate researchers involved with this project for their invaluable assistance in lizard rearing and data collection. We also thank D. Haisten, A. Runemark, Y. Takahashi, and M.
Hipsley, Christy A +3 more
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Sexual selection and assortative mating : an experimental test [PDF]
, 2016 This work was funded by the Marie Curie Initial Training Network ‘Understanding the evolutionary origin of biological diversity’ (ITN-2008-213780 SPECIATION) and by a US National Science Foundation grant (DEB 0093149) and NERC grants (NE/B504065/1; NE ...
Debelle, A. +2 more
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Imprint of assortative mating on the human genome
Nature Human Behaviour, 2018 Preference for mates with similar phenotypes; that is, assortative mating, is widely observed in humans1–5 and has evolutionary consequences6–8. Under Fisher's classical theory6, assortative mating is predicted to induce a signature in the genome at ...
L. Yengo +13 more
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Assortative mating in fallow deer reduces the strength of sexual selection. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Assortative mating can help explain how genetic variation for male quality is maintained even in highly polygynous species. Here, we present a longitudinal study examining how female and male ages, as well as male social dominance, affect assortative ...
Mary E Farrell +3 more
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