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In some ways the homogamy is even more striking for minorities.
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Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2012
Spousal similarity was not due to convergence or social homogamy...
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2012
Social homogamy -- or the tendency for people to choose a mate from within one's own religious, social, economic and educational surroundings -- played only a small role.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2011
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Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2012
Spousal similarity was not due to convergence or social homogamy...
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2012
Social homogamy -- or the tendency for people to choose a mate from within one's own religious, social, economic and educational surroundings -- played only a small role.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2011
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“Homogamy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homogamy. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
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homogamy
noun
ho·mog·a·my
hō-ˈmäg-ə-mē 
plural homogamies
: reproduction within an isolated group perpetuating qualities by which it is differentiated from the larger group of which it is a part
broadly
: the mating of like with like
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