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Couples often share traits, challenging the opposites attract notion. Implications for genetics and society.

Most opposite sex romantic partners share traits ranging from drinking habits to political leanings.

The harmful effects of close inbreeding have been recognized for centuries and, with the rise of Mendelian genetics, was realized to be an effect of homozygosis. This historical background led to great interest in ways to quantify inbreeding, its depression effects on the phenotype and flow-on effects on mate choice and other aspects of behavioral ecology. The mechanisms and cues used to avoid inbreeding are varied and include major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules and the peptides the...

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What Miscegenation Means for America Edward Dutton, American Renaissance, December 13, 2020 This essay is adapted from the new book Making Sense of Race , which can be purchased here. When we hear the word “ethnicity,” we tend to think of peoples, such as the Irish or Han Chinese, that trace their ancestry and history back millennia. But, of course, race and ethnicity are dynamic and evolving. Ethnic groups that have a “timeless” conception of themselves have, in fact, experienced more...