panmixia

English

Etymology

New Latin, from Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs, every, all) + μίξις (míxis, mixing, mingling) + Latin -ia

Noun

panmixia (uncountable)

  1. (ecology) A situation in which an individual is just as likely to mate with another randomly chosen individual as any other in the population.
  2. (biology) The cessation of natural selection, as on a useless organ.

Synonyms

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