interbreeding

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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

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

Continued interbreeding between hatchery-origin and natural-origin salmon could contribute to a decline in overall fitness for the natural-origin fish, unless the level of interbreeding is carefully managed, she said.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2024

Farmers had been using this phenomenon for millennia—breeding and interbreeding animals to produce natural variants, and selecting these variants over multiple generations.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee