Do Humans Randomly Mate? Do humans randomly mate? In humans, at least, for many traits such as blood type, random mating will occur. Individuals do not consciously select a mate according to blood type. But for other traits, such as intelligence or physical stature, this is the case. Why is human mating usually not random?
Do Humans Show Positive-assortative Mating? Do humans show positive-assortative mating? There appears to be positive-assortative mating for a number of traits in humans, such as height, skin color, and intelligence, although the consequent phenotypic correlation is often not very large. Do humans do assortative mating? Positive assortative mating, or homogamy, exists when people choose to