panmixia

[pan-mik-see-uh]

noun Animal Behavior.

random mating of individuals within a population, the breeding individuals showing no tendency to choose partners with particular traits.

Also pan·mix·is

[pan-mik-sis] /pænˈmɪk sɪs/.

Compare assortative mating, disassortative mating.

Origin of panmixia

1885–90; pan- + Greek míx(is) mingling, mixing (m(e)ig(nýnai) to mix + -sis -sis) + -ia

Related formspan·mic·tic

[pan-mik-tik] /pænˈmɪk tɪk/, adjective

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Historical Examples of panmixia

Chologaster is in a stage of panmixia as far as the eye is concerned.
The Popular Science Monthly, August, 1900
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Panmixia, Romanes thinks, may have helped to discharge the color.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, May, 1900
Various
It seems that all the admitted objections to degeneration by panmixia apply with equal402 force to germinal selection.
The Popular Science Monthly, August, 1900
Various
The results in Chologaster are due to panmixia and the limited degree of use to which the eye is put.
The Popular Science Monthly, August, 1900
Various
Panmixia might in such instances lower the general average to what has been termed the birth mean.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, May, 1900
Various

British Dictionary definitions for panmixia

panmixia

panmixis (pænˈmɪksɪs)

noun

(in population genetics) random mating within an interbreeding population

Derived Formspanmictic (pænˈmiktik), adjective

Word Origin for panmixia

C20: from New Latin, from Greek pan- + mixis act of mating

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panmixia in Medicine

panmixia

[păn-mĭk′sē-ə]

Random mating within a breeding population.