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#353 - Robert Plomin - How Do Genes Influence Our Behaviour?

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DNA Dating Is a Thing, Is It?

A symmetrical face is something aesthetically which pleases us, but also it's an indicator of fertility. Is more feminine features in a woman that if you have larger eyes, red or full lips, rosier cheeks, that is correlated with higher fertility. What I'm talking about is individual differences and that's called a sortative mating. In general, like attracts like, so taller people you can see tend to be attracted to each other,. The trait that shows the greatest disorder in mating is IQ, its correlation is about 0.45.

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