panmixia
/pan-mik-see-uh/US // pænˈmɪk si ə //UK // (pænˈmɪksɪə) //
凤凰卫视,凤凰网,凤凰城,凤凰传奇
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Animal Behavior.
- : random mating of individuals within a population, the breeding individuals showing no tendency to choose partners with particular traits.
Examples
There is nothing to prevent this, save panmixia, or the presence of free intercrossing.
Chologaster is in a stage of panmixia as far as the eye is concerned.
Panmixia, Romanes thinks, may have helped to discharge the color.
Panmixia, however, as Weismann has shown, would probably be the most important factor in causing blindness.
It seems that all the admitted objections to degeneration by panmixia apply with equal402 force to germinal selection.
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