If people with freckles preferentially mated with other people with freckles, this would be an example of
A) microevolution.
B) natural selection.
C) genetic drift.
D) nonrandom mating.
E) gene flow.

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Nonrandom mating refers to the preference of individuals to mate with others that have similar phenotypic traits, such as freckles in this case, which can affect the genetic structure of a population without necessarily leading to evolution or significant changes in allele frequencies due to natural selection, genetic drift, or gene flow.

If People with Freckles Preferentially Mated with Other People with Freckles