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Minireview Panmixia postponed: ancestry-related assortative mating in contemporary human populations Andrew S Burrell and Todd R Disotell Address: Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, 25 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003, USA. Correspondence: Todd Disotell. Email: todd.disotell@ the evolutionary and biomedical significance of such structure. Abstract A study of two different populations reveals that in both the choice of a spouse is non-random not only in respect of broad ethnic group but also in regard to specific ancestries within that Ancestral correlations group. The cause of this surprising bias remains unclear. Risch et al. [4] examine spousal correlations in genetic ancestry from four Latino populations: Mexicans from Mexico City and the San Francisco Bay Area, and Puerto Ricans from Puerto Rico and New York City. These popu- lations were chosen because of the history of population admixture in the New World, primarily involving three distinct groups: Africans, Europeans and Native Americans. As these ‘ancestral populations’ are geographically situated at the ends of genetic clines (which display continuous variation in allele frequencies or geographic distance) they are somewhat genetically distinct (Figure 1). Using enough genetic markers, individual genotypes can be compared to The past 500 years have been characterized by unprece- dented episodes of human migration and admixture, particularly in the Americas. Technological innovations have to a certain extent reduced the impact of geography on human behavior, raising the possibility of a truly global population. At a local level, however, geographic, demo- graphic, linguistic, cultural and even legal barriers now, and in the past, limit and circumscribe human mate choices