assortative mating
nounDefinitions
Between males and females of a species, the mutual attraction or selection, for…
Between males and females of a species, the mutual attraction or selection, for reproductive purposes, of individuals with similar characteristics.
- Underlying all distributions of characters in assortative matings are certain elementary principles based on probabilities and the theory of sampling.
The neighborhood
- antonymdisassortative mating
- antonymnegative assortative mating
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for assortative mating. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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