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assortative mating

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  • noun psychology, genetics Between males and females of a species, the mutual attraction or selection, for reproductive purposes, of individuals with similar characteristics.

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  • noun mating of individuals having more traits in common than likely in random mating

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. assortative pairing
  2. positive assortative mating

antonyms (2)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. disassortative mating
  2. negative assortative mating

hypernyms (6)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. conjugation
  2. coupling
  3. mating
  4. pairing
  5. sexual union
  6. union

cross-references (1)

Cross-references

  1. panmixia

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  • nuxiy commented on the word assortative mating

    "The tendency of like to mate with like. Mating can be assortative for a certain genotype (e.g., individuals with genotype AA tend to mate with other individuals of genotype AA) or phenotype (e.g., tall individuals mate with other tall individuals)."

    - SNPA

    March 21, 2009