Talk:Assortative mating

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The expression assortative mating is common in discussions of evolution. It can be found in the glossaries of most textbooks on evolution and on general biology. My intention was to go through a glossary of a good evolutionary textbook and make sure all the terms are available also in Wikipedia. Isn't this a worthy strategy? See also George R. Price. Yes, I do intend to expand on the article. What is the motivation for deleting it? Etxrge 19:43, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

This addition is merely a dictionary entry or at most a small stub. If you plan more for it, make sure that it's a worthy article before posting it, or at least put a 'stub' tag in it, so that others realize that it has further development possibilities. CB Droege 14:16, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] speedy delete

One way or another, this article is not a candidate for speedy deletion. I wikified it some and added a stub tag. [[User:Lachatdelarue|Lachatdelarue (talk)]] 14:53, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Eugenics?

<<The search for a mate that is like ones self is also linked to Eugenics, which is the search for a pure, healthy race.>>

I cut this comment to the Talk Page because I doubt that there is a published scholar who relates Eugenics to Assortative mating. Am I wrong? Can you cite the scholar who relates Eugenics to Assortative mating? ---Rednblu | Talk 07:50, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Chin morphology?

It looks like vandalism, it tastes like vandalism... but then again, what do I know? --Smári McCarthy 15:48, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Non-random Mating

suggesting that assortative mating also be called non-random mating. S. Jason Adkins 22:14, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

See the summary of my recent edit. Samsara (talk â€¢ contribs) 03:34, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] respectively

I think (but I'm not competent to assume) "therefore these two types of assortative mating have the effect of reducing and expanding the range of variation, respectively" should read "therefore these two types of assortative mating have the effect of expanding and reducing the range of variation, respectively" ... surely it's POSITIVE AM that expands variation?

[edit] RE: Respectively concerning contextual contradictions

Agreed.

   "reducing and expanding the range of variation"

Implying AM variation expands while reducing itself simultaneously, is mutually exclusive, recursively polar, and highly illogical.

[edit] Merge

I think this and disassortative mating should be covered under one article; they're both very small (especially the latter) and are just "two sides of the same coin". It could either maintain the current title or be called assortative and disassortative mating, or something like that. Perhaps a slightly broader article would be even better (perhaps mate choice?), I don't know. Richard001 (talk) 10:25, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Can also throw in Stabilizing selection and Disruptive selection to this discussion. Shyamal (talk) 11:52, 31 October 2008 (UTC)