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#778 Carles Lalueza-Fox - Inequality: A Genetic History

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The Role of Genetics in Inequalities

In the book you talk about several different, I think biological mechanisms are in this case related to sexual selection that might contribute to inequalities. So could you tell us for example, about a sortative mating, what role does it play here? Yeah, sortative mating is a mechanism it operates in I would say in the Old Animal War, but in human societies it has been operating in the past very clearly with caste system in India.

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