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Population Structure - Potential Mate Analysis

Assortative mate choice in the population of the island of Hvar was investigated using the techniques of potential mate analysis. The analysis is based on the presumption that mates are chosen from a "pool" of possible choices. The total sample used for the analysis is comprised of 197 females from actual mate pairs. The sample of males is comprised of 451 examinees, out of which 197 represent actual mates, and 254 potential mates. In the analysis, demographic, genealogical and anthropometric data were used for all examinees. The delineation of factors influencing the mate choice process was performed on the basis of the Dyke strategy (1971), which presupposes successive placement of constraints on the maximal mate pool. The analysis has shown that the first-degree kinship among actual pairs is higher than the one within potential pairs. Following the exclusion of the males who are either more than five years younger or more than sixteen years older, the age difference of the sample of the actual pairs is not significantly different from the one in the sample of potential mate pairs. Average anthropometric distances within the sample of actual and potential mates are not statistically significantly different. Average village endemicity, as well as, the average geographic distances between the natal villages of mates differs significantly between the samples of actual and potential mates.

assortative mate choice; the island of Hvar; population genetics; anthropology

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