"assortative" meaning in English

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          "word": "disassortative"
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          "word": "assortatively"
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          "word": "assortative mating"
        },
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          "word": "assortativeness"
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        {
          "word": "assortative pairing"
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          "ref": "1997, D. Wilson, L. Dugatkin, “Group Selection and Assortative Interactions,”, in The American Naturalist, volume 149, number 2, page 336:",
          "text": "Assortative interactions can generate highly nonrandom variation among groups.",
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          "ref": "2019 May 15, Olga Khazan, “What Happens When You Always Wear Headphones”, in The Atlantic:",
          "text": "We don’t date the girl next door; we date the girl who has been served up by an assortative algorithm.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Adam Kucharski, The Rules of Contagion, page 75:",
          "text": "In an assortative network, highly connected individuals are linked mostly to other highly connected people. This results in an outbreak that spreads quickly through these clusters of high-risk individuals, but struggles to reach the other, less connected, parts of the network.",
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        "Characterized by assorting."
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