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Sunday, February 19, 2012

I learned a new word

In Coming Apart: the State of White America 1950-2010, Charles Murray describes a form of economic-sexual selection:

Homogamy refers to the interbreeding of individuals with like characteristics.

Educational homogamy occurs when individuals with similar educations have children.

Cognitive homogamy occurs when individuals with similar cognitive ability have children.

They, of course, have smarter children. The smarter children go on to have success. Maybe homogamy continues. And this one way that economic and social classes arise and reproduce themselves.