panmixia

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panmixia noun

A situation in which an individual is just as likely to mate with another randomly chosen individual as any other in the population.
The cessation of natural selection, as on a useless organ.

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panmixis panmixus panmixy automixis amphimixis mixoploidy heteropopulation mixis assortative mating mosaicism mating strategy metapopulation heterophyly polymorphism mating lek paradox

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