What is "assortative"

Usage examples of "assortative".

But in any case the existence of assortative mating for such traits is significant.

Pearson and his associates have shown that there is a tendency to assortative mating for longevity: that people from long-lived stocks actually do marry people from similar stocks, more frequently than would be the case if the matings were at random.

The eyes of the interviewers glazed over as the putative lovebirds discussed assortative mating, the differentiation between penetrance and expres­sivity on the one hand and dominance and epistasis on the other, and the uncertainty of positive eugenics.