WORDS OF THE DAY – REPRODUCTION! 🙂 Consanguinity, Consanguinous, or Panaluan (g

WORDS OF THE DAY – REPRODUCTION! 🙂

Consanguinity, Consanguinous, or Panaluan (genetics): mating within an extended family, excluding only one’s children. (in theory the prohibition on reproducing with one’s children evolved as a stage, but no culture practices it any longer.)

Inbreeding(genetics): mating with individuals that are closely related genetically. Specific case is Father’s Brother’s Daughter or Cousin-marriage. Antonym:outcrossing

Near-breeding(genetics): mating with extended relations but with a prohibition on cousin marriage (out to some minimum number of generations.)

Endogamy (norm): the practice of mating within a specific ethnic group, class, or social group.

Homogamy: (norm) mating between individuals who are, in some culturally important way, similar to each other. Homogamy may be based on socioeconomic status, class, gender, ethnicity, or religion. (I avoid this term, and rely on ‘endogamous’.)

Outbreeding(genetics): Mating by choice with those outside of near genetic relations.

Exogamy, Exogamous (norms): mating only outside specific ethnic group, class, or social group.

Assortative Mating(selection bias): a nonrandom mating pattern in which individuals with similar genotypes and/or phenotypes mate with one another more frequently than would be expected under a random mating pattern.

Hypergamic, Hypergamy (selection bias): Seeking to mate with genetic(desirable), social(status) and wealth(consumption) superiors.

Panmixia, Panmixis, Panmitic: random mating. A panmictic population is one where all individuals are potential partners.