But scores of these might disappear in our offspring with a single random mating.

For random mating, the shift is less than one IQ point.

Panmictic - refers to random mating where all individuals within a population are potential partners.

Yet at the same time there was much random mating, mating on impulse.

Random mating is a term in population genetics.

Random mating is one of the requirements for the Hardy-Weinberg law to hold.

Polygamy, or at least random mating, seems to be the general rule among the toothed whales.

Over tens of generations, random mating can eliminate this type of stratification.

As before, allele frequencies remain constant after one generation of random mating between separate sexes.

- Random mating (panmixis) It can describe other types of equilibrium as well, especially in modeling contexts.

The opposite of random mating is assortative mating.

In order to be classified as such, morphs must occupy the same habitat at the same time and belong to a population with random mating.

To be in equilibrium two more assumptions need to be made that random mating occurs and there are discrete, non-overlapping generations.

Panmixia (or panmixis) means random mating.

In genetics, random mating involves the mating of individuals regardless of any physical, genetic, or social preference.

A second component of the Hardy-Weinberg principle concerns the effects of a single generation of random mating.

Outcrossing leads to random mating, whereas mating of relatives leads to inbreeding.

But maybe Darwin knew better, since the assumption of random mating could hardly apply in those numerous societies that actually favour first-cousin marriages (Murdock, 1967).

Then each individual might start to recognize exclusive rights to a specific mate and less random mating and better identification of which child belonged to which male.

Wright's F statistic reveals differences between populations by calculating the reduction in heterozygosity that is expected after random mating between the two populations.

Allele frequency can always be calculated from genotype frequency, whereas the reverse requires that the Hardy-Weinberg conditions of random mating apply.

For animals, mating strategies include random mating, disassortative mating, assortative mating, or a mating pool.

The HWP states the population will have the given genotypic frequencies (called Hardy-Weinberg proportions) after a single generation of random mating within the population.

Less commonly, in negative assortative mating (also known as disassortative mating), individuals with diverse traits mate more frequently than what would be expected in random mating.

The highest frequencies, by random mating, are expected in Sweden, but pockets of high levels also occur in Mexico, and a larger range risk exists in Central Asia.