interbreeding

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Interbreeding between the Atlantic and Pacific species also appears improbable.

From Scientific American • Aug. 28, 2017

Interbreeding is a concern because farmed fish become a weaker genetic line, less able to avoid illness and parasites and to survive the hardships of the open ocean.

From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2016

Interbreeding between Sumatran and Bornean orangutans, the only great apes native to Asia, ended after zoologists established that specimens from each island belonged to distinct species, she said.

From Reuters • Mar. 25, 2016

Interbreeding around 50,000 years ago resulted in the genomes of modern Eurasians containing between 1.5 percent and 4 percent Neanderthal DNA.

From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2016

According to the Interbreeding Theory, when Sapiens spread into Neanderthal lands, Sapiens bred with Neanderthals until the two populations merged.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari