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

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

Geographic isolation might have solved some of the “grey finch” problem—by restricting interbreeding between particular variants.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee