Denoting or involving the preferential mating of animals or marriage between people with similar characteristics.
（动物配种，人的婚姻）相配的；相称的
assortative mating
Example sentencesExamples
In positive assortative mating, individuals of similar phenotype mate together more frequently than expected by chance.
The outcome of this is assortative mating with respect to mate quality.
Condition-dependent preferences will emerge in both sexes as a result and presumably will combine to make mating even more strongly assortative.
Women with brains were not always the hottest commodity on the marriage market, notes UCLA sociology professor Robert Mare, who has conducted extensive studies of educational assortative mating over time.
Through their combined effect, the cycle of success together with assortative mating or sexual selection would have greatly accelerated the action of natural selection and the rate of human evolution.
Fruit flies have served as a prime model system in research on the effect of mate choice and assortative mating on speciation.
Despite the overall assortative pairing, the most striking pattern in this figure is that every hermit male was paired with a pure hermit female, whereas an equal number of pure hermit females pair with hybrid and Townsend's males.
Finally, we found no evidence of assortative preference for size.
Mating may thus be assortative as females mate selectively with males of the same vocal background, discouraging gene migration.
There may be incomplete admixture between components of the population because of assortative mating, niche specialization, or, particularly in the case of humans, cultural differences.
Definition of assortative in US English:
assortative
adjectiveəˈsôrdədiv
attributiveDenoting or involving the preferential mating of animals or marrying of people with similar characteristics.
（动物配种，人的婚姻）相配的；相称的
assortative mating
Example sentencesExamples
Mating may thus be assortative as females mate selectively with males of the same vocal background, discouraging gene migration.
Despite the overall assortative pairing, the most striking pattern in this figure is that every hermit male was paired with a pure hermit female, whereas an equal number of pure hermit females pair with hybrid and Townsend's males.
There may be incomplete admixture between components of the population because of assortative mating, niche specialization, or, particularly in the case of humans, cultural differences.
Fruit flies have served as a prime model system in research on the effect of mate choice and assortative mating on speciation.
Finally, we found no evidence of assortative preference for size.
Through their combined effect, the cycle of success together with assortative mating or sexual selection would have greatly accelerated the action of natural selection and the rate of human evolution.
Condition-dependent preferences will emerge in both sexes as a result and presumably will combine to make mating even more strongly assortative.
Women with brains were not always the hottest commodity on the marriage market, notes UCLA sociology professor Robert Mare, who has conducted extensive studies of educational assortative mating over time.
The outcome of this is assortative mating with respect to mate quality.
In positive assortative mating, individuals of similar phenotype mate together more frequently than expected by chance.