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Researchers have shown that we sit near people who look like us.
The effect is more than just people of the same sex or ethnicity tending to aggregate — a phenomenon well documented by earlier research.
The new finding could help explain why it is that people so often resemble physically their friends and romantic partners (known as “homophily”) — if physically similar people choose to sit near each other, they will have more opportunities to forge friendships and romances. (…)
A further possibility is that seeking proximity to physically similar others is an evolutionary hang-over — an instinct for staying close to genetically similar kin.
