From Genetic Compatibility to Conscious Relational Dynamics: Immunogenetic Myths, Algorithmic Homogamy, And the Social and Philosophical Reconstitution of Marriage

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Few ideas have travelled so quickly from the laboratory to the marketplace as the claim that human pair formation is steered, at bottom, by genetic compatibility. This review takes that claim seriously enough to test it, reading the immunogenetic and neuroendocrine evidence alongside three registers it usually ignores: the sociology of algorithmic homogamy, a philosophy of erotic simulation, and the psychobiology of dyadic regulation. The evidence proves uncooperative. Signals attributed to biology turn out to be modest, unstable, and hard to separate from social sorting, while the firmest resemblance written into the genomes of spouses traces not to any olfactory search for immunological difference but to the stratified markets in which partners are found. Marriage, accordingly, is neither an exercise in biological optimisation nor a merely discursive fiction; it is a historically contingent institution in which immunology, class, and meaning are produced together. Refusing in equal measure the determinism that would reduce the couple to its genes and the platform rationality that would reduce the partner to a profile, and refusing too the narcissistic foreclosure of the other that recent continental thought has diagnosed, the article develops the construct of conscious relational dynamics: the reflective capacity through which a couple governs, rather than merely suffers, the biological and sociotechnical grounds of its bond. Implications for theory, method, ethics, and graduate teaching follow.

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