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One of the most important conditions under which we originally derived the Hardy-Weinberg law was that of random mating. To produce an offspring, a pair of mates was chosen at random. The probabilities of choosing a given genotype for either of the two mates were independent, and were each equal to the frequency of that genotype in the population. Then, if A was the first mate chosen and B the second, in a population where Dt was the generation t frequency of genotype AA,
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Doolittle, D.P. (1987). Assortative Mating. In: Population Genetics. Advanced Series in Agricultural Sciences, vol 16. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71734-5_30
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