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- adverb In an
assortative way.
Etymologies
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assortative + -ly
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Examples
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If the population then starts to mate completely assortatively, i.e. mating only occurs between organisms of identical genotype, it is obvious that the proportion of heterozygotes must decline.
Population Genetics Okasha, Samir 2006
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Acai-swilling, assortatively-mating bobo aristocracy, but a standoff between rival elites.
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..we need the freedom to live assortatively with like-minded people, and to establish a much wider variety of local communities with their own values and norms, sustained by their own forms of praise and punishment.
Geoffrey Miller on Personality, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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