interbreeding

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The researchers also detected significant interbreeding among the frogs.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

But over hundreds of millennia, human migrations resulted in interbreeding, researchers say.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

The earlier timeline means that the three species of humans co-existed on the planet for around 800,000 years, much longer than previously thought, perhaps interacting and interbreeding in that time.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025

Based on certain genetic similarities between the two species, researchers had an inkling that H. elevatus might have obtained some of its genes via interbreeding between its H. pardalinus ancestors and H. melpomene.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 17, 2024

Farmers had been using this phenomenon for millennia—breeding and interbreeding animals to produce natural variants, and selecting these variants over multiple generations.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee