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Scientists call it panmixia.
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Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2017
This is entirely in keeping with the dominant ethos of the global elite, which aims for a panmixia of genes in concert with an alignment of a particular set of cosmopolitan post-materialist memes.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2011
Of course panmixia has to be conditioned on the fact that the vast majority of Han Chinese are stilling reproducing with other Han Chinese, and so forth.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2011
Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2017
This is entirely in keeping with the dominant ethos of the global elite, which aims for a panmixia of genes in concert with an alignment of a particular set of cosmopolitan post-materialist memes.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2011
Of course panmixia has to be conditioned on the fact that the vast majority of Han Chinese are stilling reproducing with other Han Chinese, and so forth.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2011
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panmixia
noun
pan·mix·ia
-ˈmik-sē-ə 
variants
also panmixy
plural panmixias also panmixies
: random mating within a breeding population
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