16- Assortative Mating
Assortative mating is essentially the recognition that theory isn\u2019t always perfect and that, however desperately biologists might want some simplicity in the world, organisms don\u2019t just encounter each other like gas molecules- it\u2019s not a random process. In fact, it can even give evolution a helping hand\u2026
\nSources for this episode: 1) Nishi, A., Alexander, M., Fowler, J. H. and Christakis, N. A. (2020), Assortative mating at loci under recent natural selection in humans. BioSystems 187 (2020) 104040. 2) Thain, M., and Hickman, M. (2014), The Penguin Dictionary of Biology, 11th edition. London: Penguin Publishing Group.