Assortative mating is a mating pattern and a form of sexual selection in which individuals with similar phenotypes or genotypes mate with one another more frequently than would be expected under a random mating pattern.

What is the meaning of assortative mating?

Assortative mating is the tendency for people to choose mates who are more similar (positive) or dissimilar (negative) to themselves in phenotype characteristics than would be expected by chance.

What is mean by Asort?

transitive verb. 1 : to distribute into groups of a like kind : classify. 2 : to supply with an assortment (as of goods)