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Assortative mating

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Cedric A. B. Smith  and
Atam Vetta
Cedric A. B. Smith
Affiliation:
Galton Laboratory, University College London
Atam Vetta
Affiliation:
Galton Laboratory, University College London
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Various attempts have been made to develop a theory of the genetical effects of assortative mating, using various models. The earliest and most famous is that of Fisher (1918). However, this has run into a difficulty in that his paper is far from easy to understand even despite the efforts of Kempthorne (1957) and Moran and Smith (1966) to simplify his presentation. A key paragraph is the following (which we give in abbreviated form).

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Research Article
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Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , March 1975 , pp. 16 - 18
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1975 

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