Panmixia Definition

păn-mĭksē-ə
noun
Random mating within a breeding population.
Webster's New World

(ecology) A situation in which an individual is just as likely to mate with another randomly chosen individual as any other in the population.

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Origin of Panmixia

  • New Latin pan– Greek mixis act of mingling (from mignunai to mix meik- in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • New Latin, from Ancient Greek πᾶς (pas, “every, all") + μίξις (mixis, “mixing, mingling") + Latin -ia

    From Wiktionary

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