Assortative mating
Preferential mating pattern between individuals with similar phenotypes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Assortative mating (also referred to as positive assortative mating or homogamy) is a mating pattern and a form of sexual selection in which individuals with similar phenotypes or genotypes mate with one another more frequently than would be expected under a random mating pattern.[1] A majority of the phenotypes that are subject to assortative mating are body size, visual signals (e.g. color, pattern), and sexually selected traits such as crest size.[2] The opposite of assortative is disassortative mating.
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