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Definition of Panmixia
1. Noun. (ecology) A situation in which an individual is just as likely to mate with another randomly chosen individual as any other in the population ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Panmixia
1. random mating within a breeding population [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Panmixia
Literary usage of Panmixia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Darwin and After Darwin: An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a by George John Romanes, Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1895)
"THERE are several points of considerable theoretical importance connected with
panmixia, which were omitted from the text, in order to avoid distracting ..."
2. Darwin and After Darwin: An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a by George John Romanes, Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1895)
"THERE are several points of considerable theoretical importance connected with
panmixia, which were omitted from the text, in order to avoid distracting ..."
3. From Comte to Benjamin Kidd: The Appeal to Biology Or Evolution for Human by Robert Mackintosh (1899)
"Mr. Platt- Ball] — (i) panmixia = degeneration is inconsistent with dreams of
socialism or of final balance — Selfishness, however, may not care for remote ..."
4. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"Under cessation of selection, called by Weismann panmixia, no premium is placed
on traits of excellence, from the human standpoint, such as long wool, ..."
5. The Science of Human Behavior: Biological and Psychological Foundations by Maurice Parmelee (1913)
"panmixia, 42. WE must now study the anatomical and physiological characteristics
of the organism in order to understand the structural forms and ..."
6. Animal Life and Intelligence by Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1891)
"panmixia and Disuse. We may now pass on to consider shortly some of the phenomena
of degeneration, and the dwindling or disappearance of structures which ..."
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