{"id":351,"date":"2021-01-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=351"},"modified":"2021-06-10T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T10:52:00","slug":"16-assortative-mating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"16- Assortative Mating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Embed: 16- Assortative Mating\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/6WMsBOeHsMlGk9UuHdWpPk\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>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<\/p>\n<p>Sources for this episode: 1) Thain, M., and Hickman, M. (2014), The Penguin Dictionary of Biology, 11th edition. London: Penguin Publishing Group. 2) 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.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Sources for this episode: 1) Thain, M., and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=351\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;16- Assortative Mating&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}