Talk:Heterogamy

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[edit] Proposed merge

I've also commented at talk:anisogamy that I don't think a complete merge of these two articles would be useful, but there may be a couple more things to consider in regards to heterogamy: I did a PubMed search and found many articles mention the term in a social context, aka human marriages across ethnic, national, religous, age groups etc. There is some research looking at e.g. fertility and divorce rates of human heterogamous marriages. That info is so far missing here, but might be what the layman might be most likely looking for when typing "heterogamy" into the search box. I think the best course of action might be to expand that part into the main article at heterogamy. Also, there is an article on heterogamous, which should probably be merged/redirected here. The bottom line is: While anisogamy is sometimes called heterogamy, the term heterogamy can also refer to a number of other things besides anisogamy. - tameeria 22:20, 29 April 2007 (UTC)