pangamyn.
/ˈpaŋɡəmi/, U.S. /ˈpæŋɡəmi/ rare.
Random mating among individuals of a species, without selection.
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1900 K. Pearson Gram. Sci. (ed. 2) 459 The intensity of heredity in cases of blended inheritance with pangamy are very nearly given by the lower limits.
1941 Amer. Anthropologist 43 540 A socially unrestricted mating, a continuation of the unrestricted mating of man's lower-animal ancestors... It might better be called pangamy.
1969 Population Index 35 312/2 Further analysis of the concept of panmixia as defined by Albert Jacquard in the paper cited in 35: Title 2465, elaboration of the concept of pangamy, and discussion of tests for each.
Derivatives
ˈpangamous adj. = pangamic adj.
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1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Pangamous.
ˈpangamously adv.
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1900 K. Pearson Gram. Sci. (ed. 2) 480 Whenever the sexes are equipotent, blend their characters and mate pangamously, all characters will be inherited at the same rate.
1906 F. A. Woods Mental & Moral Heredity in Royalty xviii. 272 The third of these requirements, that they mate pangamously, is probably better fulfilled among royalty than among human beings in general.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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