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Height Assortative Mating

Height Assortative Mating is a mating pattern in which individuals select partners with similar stature, distinguished from other forms of assortative mating by the specific trait of physical height serving as the basis for non-random pairing in human populations.

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Human assortative mating and genetic equilibrium: An evolutionary perspective

D. D. Thiessen, Barbara Gregg · Ethology and Sociobiology · 1980 · 275 citations

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Variation in Human Mate Choice: Simultaneously Investigating Heritability, Parental Influence, Sexual Imprinting, and Assortative Mating

Brendan P. Zietsch, Karin J. H. Verweij, Andrew C. Heath et al. · The American Naturalist · 2011 · 151 citations · Full text

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Assortative mating and differential fertility by phenotype and genotype across the 20th century

Dalton Conley, Thomas Laidley, Daniel W. Belsky et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2016 · 107 citations · Full text

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Male choice, fighting ability, assortative mating and the intensity of sexual selection in the milkweed longhorn beetle, Tetraopes tetraophthalmus (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)

Denson Kelly McLain, Robert D. Boromisa · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · 1987 · 101 citations

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Assortative mating in zebra finch subspecies, <i>Taeniopygia guttata guttata</i> and <i>T. g. castanotis</i>

Nicola S. Clayton · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 1990 · 98 citations

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  1. CG
    C. G. N. Mascie‐Taylor

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 80 citations

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  2. NG
    Nicholas G. Martin

    QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia

    2 publications · 184 citations

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  3. MP
    María Pennock‐Román

    Pennsylvania State University, United States

    1 publications · 10 citations

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  4. BW
    Benjamin W. Domingue

    Stanford University, United States

    1 publications · 107 citations

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  5. PS
    Piotr Sorokowski

    University of Wrocław, Poland

    1 publications · 51 citations

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Institutions

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  1. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    126 citations

  2. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    118 citations

  3. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    571 citations

  4. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    55 citations

  5. University of Wrocław

    Wroclaw, Poland

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    51 citations

  6. QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

    Brisbane, Australia

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    453 citations

  7. University of Essex

    Colchester, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    28 citations

  8. Universidade Federal de Pelotas

    Pelotas, Brazil

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    19 citations

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  1. Journal of Biosocial Science

    JBS · 2 publications · 32 citations

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  2. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

    2 publications · 173 citations

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  3. Annals of Human Biology

    2 publications · 55 citations

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  4. American Journal of Physical Anthropology

    2 publications · 31 citations

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  5. Body Image

    1 publications · 51 citations

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