assortative mating

== English == === Noun === assortative mating (countable and uncountable, plural assortative matings) (psychology, genetics) Between males and females of a species, the mutual attraction or selection, for reproductive purposes, of individuals with similar characteristics. 1922, Frank A. Hartman, "The Emergency Function of the Adrenal," Science, New Series, vol. 56, no. 1440, p. 146: Underlying all distributions of characters in assortative matings are certain elementary principles based on probabilities and the theory of sampling. ==== Synonyms ==== assortative pairing positive assortative mating ==== Antonyms ==== disassortative mating, negative assortative mating ==== Translations ==== === See also === panmixia