Married couples in four Solomon Islands tribes did not mate assortatively for body size or shape.
2006
Some genetic traits in Solomon Island populations. V. Assortative mating, with special reference to skin color
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- Married couples in four Solomon Islands tribes did not mate assortatively for body size or shape.
- All four groups had high correlations between spouses' age and moderate correlations, 0.3 to 0.5, for age-associated traits like nose height, ear length, and grayness of hair.
- Three brownskinned groups from Malaita showed significant assortative mating for skin color whereas the very dark-skinned Nasioi, from Bougainville, did not.
- The positive correlations between spouses for skin color, with r's for various bodily regions ranging from 0.2 to 0.6 in the three Malaitan tribes, persisted when age was partialled out.
- As expected with assortative mating, the Malaitans' skin color was highly variable.
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