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

Homo sapiens had crossed over from the African continent before this, but the new research shows these populations before the interbreeding period did not survive.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2024

But whether that interbreeding was critical to H. elevatus separating from H. pardalinus and becoming its own distinct species was a mystery.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 17, 2024

For a new species to arise, then, some factor must arise that makes interbreeding impossible.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee