interbreeding

What it really shows is that interbreeding between archaic human lineages was not exceptional.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

The discovery reinforces a growing view of human evolution as a long history of encounters and interbreeding among many related hominin populations.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 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

Jenkin’s central problem with Darwin was this: if hereditary traits kept “blending” with each other in every generation, then what would keep any variation from being diluted out immediately by interbreeding?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee