intercross
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But these facts do not make me doubt that it is a general law of nature that the individuals of the same species occasionally intercross, and that some great advantage is derived from this act.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
He says, for example:— In the case of methodical selection, a breeder selects for some definite object, and if the individuals be allowed freely to intercross, his work will completely fail.
From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol 3 of 3) Post-Darwinian Questions: Isolation and Physiological Selection by George John Romanes
Cultivated plants like those in a state of nature frequently intercross, and will thus mingle their constitutional peculiarities.
From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin
Lathyrus odoratus, varieties of, never naturally intercross in England.
From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin
The individuals which have already begun to vary will intercross one with another by the aid of insects; and this accounts for the extreme diversity of character which many of our long cultivated plants exhibit.
From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin
