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Definition of Assortative
1. [adj]
Literary usage of Assortative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Grammar of Science by Karl Pearson (1900)
"assortative Mating We have noted that if there 1s to be differentiation, then a
more or less effective barrier to intercrossing between the selected ..."
2. Report (1904)
"Professor Karl Pearson and his associates have demonstrated that there exists in
man a significant and measurable degree of assortative mating. ..."
3. Applied Eugenics by Roswell Hill Johnson, Paul Bowman Popenoe (1918)
"If other traits are measured, assortative mating will again be found. ... In some
cases assortative mating is conscious, as when two congenitally deaf ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1906)
"Is there now any assortative mating among these variations? In March and April
Miss Ramsay found the beetles mating on the wild mustard on which their food, ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"The question of assortative mating is an important one, and a knowledge of the
... It is evident that if assortative mating be in general the strong force ..."
6. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1914)
"assortative MATING. To show you that marriage selection does really operate ...
assortative mating has the value, however, of building up the unusually able ..."
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