assortative
- a word derived from assort.
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One common form of mate choice, called assortative mating, is an individual’s preference to mate with partners who are phenotypically similar to themselves.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
“Harvard already did the selecting we looked for. It was just an early example of assortative mating.”
From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2019
Men and women tend to consort with and marry others who are of similar characteristics, what psychologists call assortative mating.
From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2019
The theory of assortative mating holds that we are ever more averse to partners unlike ourselves.
From The Guardian • May 11, 2018
Random mating, therefore, need not be taken into account by eugenists, who must rather give their attention to one of the two forms of non-random mating, namely, assortative and preferential.
From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul
