Differential contribution of stature phenotypes to assortative mating in parents of Philadelphia Black and White school children

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ID8316319
AutoresWilliam H Mueller (The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston), Robert M Malina (0000-0002-9402-0648, The University of Texas at Austin)
Año1976
Volumen45
Número2
Páginas269-275
Fecha de publicación1976-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Physical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-9483 • E-ISSN: 1096-8644
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/ajpa.1330450212
PMID961839
OpenAlexW2088551815
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas14

Assortative mating for stature, weight, and the ponderal and Quetelet's indices is considered in a large sample of Philadelphia Blacks and Whites. The husband‐wife correlation for stature is positive and significant in Whites ( r = 0.34, d.f. = 382), but negligible in Blacks ( r = 0.06, d.f. = 420). Correlations for weight and the body indices are positive and significant in both samples, those for body indices showing some dependency on the husband‐wife correlations for stature and weight. When couples are grouped into statural mating combinations on the basis of short (S), medium (M) and tall (T), White spouses' statures show an approximately linear relationship to one another. The distribution of Black spouses' statures, however, is not completely independent, even though the husband‐wife correlation is close to zero. There are elements of both positive and negative assortative mating among Blacks, resulting in an excess of certain mating types over that expected on the basis of chance. These mating types are usually those in which the husband is shorter than the wife, except at the heterogeneous extremes of the bivariate array

Assortative mating · Biology · Differential (mechanical device) · Mating · Phenotype · Physics · Short stature · Sociology · White (mutation) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Genetics · Medicine · Psychology · Pediatrics