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

"Are they co-operative, is there interbreeding, are the locals able to make their way into the elite?"

From BBC • Jan. 1, 2025

Duplicated and rearranged genes can account for some of this knottiness, Renner explains, as can interbreeding among these diverging plants.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 23, 2024

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

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee