panmixia
Meanings
noun
- A situation in which an individual is just as likely to mate with a randomly chosen individual as any other in the population.
- The cessation of natural selection, as on a useless organ.
Word forms
Etymology
From New Latin panmixia, from Ancient Greek παν- (pan-, “every, all”) + μίξις (míxis, “mixing, mingling”) + Latin -ia.
Synonyms
Related words
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.