assortative mating

NOUN

mating of individuals having more traits in common than likely in random mating

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Cardinals frequently remained paired over several breeding seasons, but we used only the initial pairings in the consideration of assortative mating.
In both cases the result is assortative mating or breeding among mates that possess similar genes.

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