- present participle of interbreed.
interbreeding
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Yet the genomes of living people also contained signs of much older episodes of interbreeding.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
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
For a new species to arise, then, some factor must arise that makes interbreeding impossible.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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