English Dictionary

assortative mating

noun

(psychology, genetics) Between males and females of a species, the mutual attraction or selection, for reproductive purposes, of individuals with similar characteristics.

Assortative mating is a phenomenon in psychology.

意味（1）

(psychology, genetics) Between males and females of a species, the mutual attraction or selection, for reproductive purposes, of individuals with similar characteristics.

Underlying all distributions of characters in assortative matings are certain elementary principles based on probabilities and the theory of sampling.