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Definition of Assortative mating

1. Noun. Mating of individuals having more traits in common than likely in random mating.

Definition of Assortative mating

1. Noun. (psychology genetics) Between males and females of a species, the mutual attraction or selection, for reproductive purposes, of individuals with similar characteristics. ¹

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Medical Definition of Assortative mating

1. Selection of a mate with preference for (or aversion to) a particular genotype, i.e., nonrandom mating. Synonym: nonrandom mating. (05 Mar 2000)

Literary usage of Assortative mating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report (1904)
"Professor Karl Pearson and his associates have demonstrated that there exists in man a significant and measurable degree of assortative mating. ..."

2. The Grammar of Science by Karl Pearson (1900)
"assortative mating We have noted that if there 1s to be differentiation, then a more or less effective barrier to intercrossing between the selected ..."

3. Applied Eugenics by Roswell Hill Johnson, Paul Bowman Popenoe (1918)
"In this case, the mathematician can give us a coefficient of resemblance, or of assortative mating, which we write as zero. The other extreme would be the ..."

4. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1914)
"assortative mating. To show you that marriage selection does really operate ... assortative mating has the value, however, of building up the unusually able ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1906)
"Is there now any assortative mating among these variations? In March and April Miss Ramsay found the beetles mating on the wild mustard on which their food, ..."

6. The Trend of the Race: A Study of Present Tendencies in the Biological by Samuel Jackson Holmes (1921)
"assortative mating is the union of like with like. ... The few studies of assortative mating in man have shown, contrary to popular impression, ..."

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