interbreeding
- present participle of interbreed.
Example Sentences
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Interbreeding also occurred between humans and Denisovans, and up to 6 percent of the DNA of people in Melanesia and parts of Southeast Asia is Denisovan.
From Scientific American • Oct. 3, 2022
Interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals means that all non-Africans alive today carry about 1-5% Neanderthal DNA.
From The Guardian • Feb. 12, 2018
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
