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Chick, Garry; Proyer, René; Purrington, Andrew; Yarnal, Careen – American Journal of Play, 2020
The authors discuss assortative mating, the tendency--important for increased genetic variation--of individuals to mate with the phenotypically similar at rates greater than chance. Influenced by many factors--physical characteristics like height and weight and demographic elements like behavior and attitudes, economic status and education, church…
Descriptors: Play, Intimacy, Genetics, Individual Characteristics