panmixia
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
New Latin, from Ancient Greek πᾶς (pas, “every, all”) + μίξις (mixis, “mixing, mingling”) + Latin -ia
Noun[edit]
panmixia (uncountable)
- (ecology) A situation in which an individual is just as likely to mate with another randomly chosen individual as any other in the population
