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panmictic Describing a population in which mating is entirely random and any two (male and female) individuals are equally likely to mate. Random mating (or panmixis) is one of the assumptions of the Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium but is probably uncommon in natural populations, in which spatial structuring and assortative mating are usually evident.

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