panmixia

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
Weismann has emphasized this idea in his doctrine of "panmixia," or the withdrawal of selection, which always results in degeneration.

View all »
Definitions (3)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. noun Random mating within a breeding population.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (2)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (16)

  • Weismann has emphasized this idea in his doctrine of "panmixia," or the withdrawal of selection, which always results in degeneration. —  Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation
  • He, too, has a horror of panmixia. —  Evolution in Modern Thought
  • Thus what Weismann terms "panmixia," or free intercrossing, will co-operate with Galton's law of "regression towards mediocrity," and the result will be that, whenever selection ceases to act on any part or organ which has heretofore been kept up to a maximum of size and efficiency, the organ in question will rapidly decrease till it reaches a mean value considerably below the mean of the progeny that has usually been produced each year, and very greatly below the mean of that portion which has survived annually; and this will take place by the general law of heredity, and quite irrespective of any use or disuse of the part in question. —  Darwinism (1889)
  • 2 value, particularly at larger inter-marker distances, reflects the extent of panmixia in a population. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • The great reduction in the weight of _female_ jaws _and skulls_ evidently points to sexual selection and to panmixia under male protection. —  Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin
More examples »
 

Tags

panmixia hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 19 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. New Latin : pan- + Greek mixis, act of mingling (from mignunai, to mix; see meik- in Indo-European roots).

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. Prop. *pammixia (cf. Greek πάμμικτος, παμμιγής, mixed of all sorts), from Greek πᾱς (παν-), all, + μῖξις, mixing, from μιγνύναι, mix: see mix.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/pænˈmɪksiə/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

Vignettes · carcinogenic · critic · fixie · am

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile · an sionnach i gcraiceann na caorach · lavar puercos con jabón es perder tiempo y jabón · procrastinate · its not like im ugly people tell me im pretty