Abstract
Several twin studies of multiple abilities and educational and socioeconomic variables suggest that a single common factor underlies the contribution of mate selection and cultural inheritance to the covariation of such measures. Theoretical analysis shows that this finding is consistent with a mechanism of mate selection in which specific abilities are merely components of a composite latent variable for which there is assortative mating. We question how far measures of specific abilities reflect behavioral traits of independent adaptive significance.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 371-376 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Behavior genetics |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 1984 |
Keywords
- assortative mating
- cultural inheritance
- trait correlation